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Genus: Simziella Cala-Riquelme & Alequín, 2025 | Family: Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871

Simziella canadas (Wunderlich, 2022)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053732

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Described:

Distribution: Canary Is.

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany m (A0014193) - (Wunderlich, 2022)
Paratype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany 1m (A0014194) - (Wunderlich, 2022)
Paratype: Departamento de Zoología de la Universidad de La Laguna (DZUL), Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain 1m 8f (5144, 6256, 6558, 9654, 11368, 11551) - (Wunderlich, 2022)

Taxonomic References

Emblyna canadas Wunderlich, 2022: 14, f. 6-10 (Dmf) Original description

Simziella canadas Montana et al., 2025: 90 (T from Emblyna)

References

Montana, K. O., Cala-Riquelme, F., Crews, S. C., Gorneau, J. A., Al-Jamal, A. M., Alequín, L. D., Spagna, J. C., Ballarin, F. & Esposito, L. A. (2025). Tailor's drawer no more: a reappraisal of the spider family Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 sensu lato. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(2, zlaf007): 1-97. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf007 [[2nd pdf contains the Suppl. Figs 1-5]] -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2022). Some spiders (Araneae) of the Western Palearctic. Beiträge zur Araneologie 15: 4-78, 199. -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2025-07-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Montana et al., 2025
2025-07-07	Species transferred to new genus	Montana et al., 2025	Species transferred from Emblyna to Simziella
2022-02-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Wunderlich, 2022
2022-02-11	New species inserted	Wunderlich, 2022