Sidymella is a genus of spider in the family Thomisidae, found in South America, Australia and New Zealand. It was originally named Sidyma, but this was later found to have been used already for a genus of moths.
Taxonomy The genus was first erected by Eugène Simon in 1895 under the name Sidyma, with the type species Sidyma lucida. However, it was later discovered that there was a moth genus Sidyma, named in 1856, so the genus name was preoccupied. The replacement name Sidymella was provided by Strand in 1942.
Species , the World Spider Catalog accepted 21 species:
Sidymella angularis (Urquhart, 1885) – New Zealand Sidymella angulata (Urquhart, 1885) – New Zealand Sidymella ayahuma Díaz-Guevara & Machado, 2026 – Ecuador Sidymella benhami (Hogg, 1910) – New Zealand (Stewart Is.) Sidymella bicuspidata (L. Koch, 1874) – Australia (Queensland) Sidymella excavata (Machado & Guzati, 2019) – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina Sidymella furcillata (Keyserling, 1880) – Brazil, Argentina Sidymella hirsuta (L. Koch, 1874) – Australia (Queensland) Sidymella jordanensis (Soares, 1944) – Brazil Sidymella kochi (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia) Sidymella kolpogaster (Lise, 1973) – Brazil Sidymella lampei (Strand, 1913) – Australia (Victoria) Sidymella longipes (L. Koch, 1874) – Australia (Queensland) Sidymella longispina (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil Sidymella lucida (Keyserling, 1880) (type species) – Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina Sidymella malefica Díaz-Guevara & Machado, 2026 – Ecuador Sidymella multispinulosa (Mello-Leitão, 1944) – Brazil Sidymella nigripes (Mello-Leitão, 1947) – Brazil Sidymella rubrosignata (L. Koch, 1874) – Australia (New South Wales) Sidymella sigillata (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Uruguay Sidymella trapezia (L. Koch, 1874) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
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