Sidymella

Sidymella
Sidymella rubrosignata juvenile on a bromeliad at Chatswood West, Australia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Sidymella Strand, 1942[1]
Synonyms[1]
Sidyma Simon, 1895 (preoccupied by Sidyma Walker, 1856)

Sidymella is a genus of spider in the family Thomisidae, found in South America, Australia and New Zealand.^[1] 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.^[2][3]

Species[]

As of April 2016, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:^[1]

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