Description of five new spiders from Canada (Araneae: Linyphiidae) Author Dupérré, Nadine Author Paquin, Pierre text Zootaxa 2007 1632 1 20 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.179433 588b73cc-c94f-4f39-a203-be5f532102ee 1175-5326 179433 Sisicus Bishop & Crosby 1938 Type species. Sisicus penifusifer Bishop & Crosby 1938 Diagnosis. Members of the genus Sisicus are distinguished from all other Linyphiidae by the combination of the following characters: prolateral macrosetae on tibia I absent; haplotracheate (see Blest 1976 : fig.1a) with median tracheal trunks about as wide as laterals. Male cephalothorax rounded, clypeus with brush of setae; palp with vestigial suprategulum and large lamella charcateristica. Female with one seta on clypeus; epigynum without ventral plate scape; dorsal plate scape present; atrium large. Composition. Sisicus penifusifer Bishop & Crosby 1938 , S. apertus (Holm 1939) and S. volutasilex n.sp. Distribution. Holarctic.