''Paro simoni'' is a

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dwarf spiders. It is the only species in the

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''Paro''. The species and genus were first described by

Lucien Berland Lucien Berland (14 May 1888 in Ay, Marne – 18 August 1962 in Versailles)Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Berland (Lucien) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de ...

in 1942, and has only been found on the

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. Originally placed with the

Agelenidae The Agelenidae are a large family of spiders in the suborder Araneomorphae. Well-known examples include the common "grass spiders" of the genus ''Agelenopsis''. Nearly all Agelenidae are harmless to humans, but the bite of the hobo spider (''Erat ...

, it was moved to the sheet weavers in 1967.

References

Linyphiidae Spiders described in 1942 Spiders of Oceania Taxa named by Lucien Berland {{Linyphiidae-stub

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