Bucliona

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Bucliona
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Clubionidae
Genus: Bucliona
Benoit, 1977[1]
Type species
Clubiona dubia
Species
  • Bucliona dubia (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1870)
  • Bucliona jucunda (Karsch, 1879)
  • Bucliona kirilli Yu & Li, 2021

Bucliona is a genus of sac spiders first described by Pierre L.G. Benoit in 1977.[2] As of November 2021 it contains only three species: B. dubia, B. jucunda, and B. kirilli.[1] It was synonymized with Clubiona in 1997,[3] but was elevated back to genus in 2021.[4] The type species was originally described under the name "Clubiona dubia".[5]

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Bucliona Benoit, 1977". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
  2. ^ Benoit, P. L. G. (1977), "La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV" [The terrestrial fauna of the island of Saint Helena IV], Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (in French), 220: 64–81
  3. ^ Mikhailov, K. G. (1997). "Redescription of Clubiona dubia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 (Aranei Clubionidae) from Saint Helena Island". Arthropoda Selecta. 6 (1/2): 95–97.
  4. ^ Zhang, J. S.; Marusik, Y. M.; Oketch, D. A; et al. (2021). "Resurrection of the spider genus Bucliona Benoit, 1977, with a description of a new species from Kenya (Araneae, Clubionidae)". Zootaxa. 5006 (1): 195–207. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5006.1.21.
  5. ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1870). "Notes on some spiders and scorpions from St Helena, with descriptions of new species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 37 (3): 531–544. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1869.tb07363.x.

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