{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Drymusa | image = Drymusa.jpg | image_caption = ''Drymusa'' sp. | authority = Simon, 1892<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''D. nubila'' | type_species_authority = Simon, 1892 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 12, see text }}
'''''Drymusa''''' is a genus of false violin spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1892.<ref name=Simo1892>{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1892| title=On the spiders of the island of St. Vincent. Part 1.| journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London| pages=549–575| volume=59| issue=4}}</ref> They physically resemble violin spiders (''Loxosceles''), but their bites are not believed to be medically significant.<ref>{{cite journal| last=Valerio| first=C. E.| year=1974| title=Prey capture by ''Drymusa dinora'' (Araneae, Scytodidae)| journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology| volume=81| issue=2| pages=284–287| doi=10.1155/1974/41354| doi-access=free}}</ref> Originally placed with the spitting spiders, it was moved to the Loxoscelidae (now a synonym for Sicariidae) in 1981,<ref name=Alay1981>{{cite journal| last=Alayón G.| first=G.| year=1981| title=El género Drymusa (Araneae: Loxoscelidae) en Cuba| journal=Poeyana| volume=219| page=13}}</ref> then to the Drymusidae in 1986.<ref name=Leht1986>{{cite book| last=Lehtinen| first=P. T.| year=1986| title=Evolution of the Scytodoidea. Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Arachnology}}</ref>
==Species== They occur in the Caribbean and South America. {{as of|2019|05}} it contains twelve species:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Drymusa Simon, 1892| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-06-01| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/822| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''Drymusa armasi'' <small>Alayón, 1981</small> – Cuba *''Drymusa canhemabae'' <small>Brescovit, Bonaldo & Rheims, 2004</small> – Brazil *''Drymusa colligata'' <small>Bonaldo, Rheims & Brescovit, 2006</small> – Brazil *''Drymusa dinora'' <small>Valerio, 1971</small> – Costa Rica *''Drymusa nubila'' <small>Simon, 1892</small> (type) – St. Vincent *''Drymusa philomatica'' <small>Bonaldo, Rheims & Brescovit, 2006</small> – Brazil *''Drymusa rengan'' <small>Labarque & Ramírez, 2007</small> – Chile *''Drymusa serrana'' <small>Goloboff & Ramírez, 1992</small> – Argentina *''Drymusa simoni'' <small>Bryant, 1948</small> – Hispaniola *''Drymusa spectata'' <small>Alayón, 1981</small> – Cuba *''Drymusa spelunca'' <small>Bonaldo, Rheims & Brescovit, 2006</small> – Brazil *''Drymusa tobyi'' <small>Bonaldo, Rheims & Brescovit, 2006</small> – Brazil
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Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Drymusidae Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon