Persilena

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Persilena sengleti | authority = Zamani & Marusik, 2020<ref name=WSC_g5780 /> | parent_authority = Zamani & Marusik, 2020<ref name=WSC_g5780 /> }}

'''''Persilena''''' is a monotypic genus of Middle Eastern funnel weavers containing the single species, '''''Persilena sengleti'''''. It was first described by Alireza Zamani and Yuri M. Marusik in 2020,<ref name=Zama2020 /> and it has only been found in Iran.<ref name=WSC_g5780 />

==Etymology== The name is a combination of "Persia" and ''Agelena'', due to similarities with that genus.<ref name=Zama2020 />

==References== <references>

<ref name=WSC_g5780>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Persilena Zamani & Marusik, 2020| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2021-11-26| year=2021| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5780| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref>

<ref name=Zama2020>{{cite journal| author-last=Zamani| author-first=A.| author2-last=Marusik| author2-first=Y. M.| year=2020| journal=Arachnology| title=A review of Agelenini (Araneae: Agelenidae: Ageleninae) of Iran and Tajikistan, with descriptions of four new genera| volume=18| issue=4| pages=368–386| doi=10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.368| s2cid=214702963| url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/15177| url-access=subscription}}</ref>

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Category:Monotypic Agelenidae genera Category:Spiders of Iran Category:Taxa named by Yuri M. Marusik