{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = BlackwallSpidersPlateXIV.jpg | image_caption = ''Simitidion simile'' figure 119 | taxon = Simitidion | authority = Wunderlich, 1992<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''S. simile'' | type_species_authority = (C. L. Koch, 1836) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = {{Specieslist | S. agaricographum|<small>(Levy & Amitai, 1982)</small> – Tunisia, Greece (mainland, Crete), Turkey, Cyprus, Israel | S. lacuna|<small>Wunderlich, 1992</small> – Canary Is., Spain, North Africa, Israel | S. simile|<small>(C. L. Koch, 1836)</small> – Canada, Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Israel, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia}} }} '''''Simitidion''''' is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 1992.<ref name=Wund1992>{{cite journal| last=Wunderlich| first=J.| year=1992| title=Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution| journal=Beiträge zur Araneologie| pages=1–619| volume=1}}</ref> {{as of|2020|06}} it contains three species, native to Africa, Asia and Europe, and introduced to Canada: ''S. agaricographum'', ''S. lacuna'', and ''S. simile''.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web| title=Gen. Simitidion Wunderlich, 1992| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-07-14| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3538| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref>
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==Further reading== *{{cite journal| last=Le Peru| first=B.| year=2011| title=The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae| journal=Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon| pages=1–522| volume=2}} *{{cite journal| last=Wunderlich| first=J.| year=2008| title=On extant and fossil (Eocene) European comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with notes on their subfamilies, and with descriptions of new taxa| journal=Beiträge zur Araneologie| pages=819–859| volume=5}} *{{citation| last=Levy| first=G.| year=1998| contribution=Araneae: Theridiidae| title=Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida III}} *{{cite journal| last=Knoflach| first=B.| year=1996| title=Das Männchen von ''Simitidion agaricographum'' (Levy & Amitai) (Arachnida: Araneae, Theridiidae)| journal=Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck| pages=149–156| volume=83}}
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