Blabomma

Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937

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Blabomma is a of small araneomorph spiders in the Cybaeidae. The genus was erected in 1937 and has undergone several family-level reassignments, most recently to Cybaeidae in 2017. It contains eleven described , ten of which are to the United States and one to Korea. The type species is Blabomma californicum.

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How to pronounce Blabomma: /bləˈbɒmə/

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Distribution

Ten are known from the United States (California, Oregon, and other western states), with one species, Blabomma uenoi, recorded from Korea.

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Taxonomic history

Blabomma was originally described in the Agelenidae (funnel weavers), transferred to Dictynidae in 1967, and moved to Cybaeidae in 2017 based on phylogenetic analysis.

Species diversity

The contains eleven described as of 2019, with the majority described in the original 1937 publication by Chamberlin and Ivie.

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