''Ethobuella'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South Ameri ...
n
araneomorph
The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (taran ...
spiders in the family
Cybaeidae
Cybaeidae is a family of spiders first described by Nathan Banks in 1892. The diving bell spider or water spider ''Argyroneta aquatica'' was previously included in this family, but is now in the family Dictynidae.
Genera
, the World Spider Cat ...
, and was first described by
R. V. Chamberlin &
Wilton Ivie
Vaine Wilton Ivie (March 28, 1907 – August 8, 1969) was an American arachnologist, who described hundreds of new species and many new genera of spiders, both under his own name and in collaboration with Ralph Vary Chamberlin. He was employed b ...
in 1937.
it contains only two species: ''
E. hespera'' and ''
E. tuonops''.
Originally placed with the
funnel weavers, it was elevated to genus and moved to the
dwarf sheet spider
Dwarf sheet spiders (Hahniidae) is a family of araneomorph spiders, first described by Philipp Bertkau in 1878.
Description
Their bodies are about long, and they build extremely delicate webs in the form of a sheet that does not lead to a retr ...
s in 1967,
then moved to the Cybaeidae in 2017.
References
Cybaeidae genera
Cybaeidae
Hahniidae
Spiders of North America
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