Dirksia is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cybaeidae. It was first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1942 as a subgenus of Ethobuella. Originally placed with the funnel weavers, it was elevated to genus and moved to the dwarf sheet spiders in 1967, then moved to the Cybaeidae in 2017.
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Dirksia is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cybaeidae. It was first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1942 as a subgenus of Ethobuella. Originally placed with the funnel weavers, it was elevated to genus and moved to the dwarf sheet spiders in 1967, then moved to the Cybaeidae in 2017.
==Species== , this genus includes two species: Dirksia cinctipes (Banks, 1896) – Alaska, Canada, United States (type species) Dirksia pyrenaea (Simon, 1898) – France
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