''Piabuna'' is a

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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 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 1933. Originally added to the

Liocranidae Liocranidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897. They are one of several groups called "sac spiders". The holarctic genus '' Agroeca'' is the best-known, but it also includes various genera of more obscur ...

, it was moved to the

Corinnidae Corinnidae is a family of araneomorph spiders, sometimes called corinnid sac spiders. The family, like other "clubionoid" families, has a confusing taxonomic history. Once it was a part of the large catch-all taxon Clubionidae, now very much sm ...

in 2002, then to the

Phrurolithidae Phrurolithidae is a family of araneomorph spiders, known as guardstone spiders. The family was first described by Nathan Banks in 1892. First included in the Corinnidae as the subfamily Phrurolithinae, later phylogenetic studies justified a separ ...

in 2014.

Species

it contains six species: *'' Piabuna brevispina'' Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 – USA *'' Piabuna longispina'' Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 – USA *'' Piabuna nanna'' Chamberlin & Ivie, 1933 (

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) – USA *'' Piabuna pallida'' Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 – USA *'' Piabuna reclusa'' Gertsch & Davis, 1940 – Mexico *'' Piabuna xerophila'' Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 – USA

References

External links

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