The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/22278
Dictyna foliacea (Hentz, 1850)
FAMILY: DICTYNIDAE O. P.-Cambridge, 1871
Genus: Dictyna Sundevall, 1833
Species: Dictyna foliacea (Hentz, 1850)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
meshweavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA, Canada
Nearctic States & Provinces:
CO IL OK PA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:‡
space web builders
‡Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280.
Recorded Habitats:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Seasonality of Specimen Records:
Image(s) of Habitus:
(images not yet available)
Details About Males
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of External Male Genitalia:
(image not yet available)
Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Dictyna foliacea Hentz 1850 |
| Theridion foliaceum Hentz 1850 |
| Theridion morologum Hentz 1850 |
| Dictyna vittata Keyserling 1884 |
| Dictyna frondea Emerton 1888 |
| Dictyna frondea Emerton 1902 |
| Dictyna foliacea Petrunkevitch 1911 |
| Dictyna foliacea Comstock 1940 |
| Dictyna foliacea Muma 1943 |
| Dictyna foliacea Kaston 1948 |
| Dictyna foliacea Chamberlin & Gertsch 1958 |
| Dictyna foliacea Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
Taxonomic References†
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. J. Gertsch. 1958. The spider family Dictynidae in America north of Mexico. Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 116: 1-152.
Comstock, J. H. 1940. The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, xi + 727 pp.
Emerton, J. H. 1902. The common spiders of the United States. Boston, pp. 1-225.
Emerton, J. H. 1888. New England spiders of the family Ciniflonidae. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 7: 443-458.
Hentz, N. M. 1850. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 6: 18-35, 271-295.
Jones, S. 1947. Descriptions of some species of the spider genus Dictyna. Field and Laboratory 15: 1-35.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Keyserling, E. 1884. Neue Spinnen aus America. V. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 33: 649-684.
Muma, M. H. 1943. Common spiders of Maryland. Natural History Society of Maryland, Baltimore, 179 pp.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1911. A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greeland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 29: 1-791.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/DICTYNIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Dictyna Sundevall, 1833‡‡
D. abundans Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941 ...............USA
D. agressa Ivie, 1947 ...............USA
D. alaskae Chamberlin & Ivie, 1947 ...............Holarctic
D. annexa Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936 ...............USA, Mexico
D. apacheca Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 ...............USA
D. arundinacea (Linnaeus, 1758) ...............Holarctic
D. bellans Chamberlin, 1919 ...............USA, Mexico
D. bellans hatchi Jones, 1948 ...............USA
D. bostoniensis Emerton, 1888 ...............USA, Canada
D. brevitarsa Emerton, 1915 ...............USA, Canada, Alaska
D. calcarata Banks, 1904 ...............USA, Mexico, Hawaii
D. cavata Jones, 1947 ...............USA, Cuba
D. cebolla Ivie, 1947 ...............USA
D. cholla Gertsch & Davis, 1942 ...............USA, Mexico
D. civica (Lucas, 1850) ...............Europe, North Africa, North America
D. coloradensis Chamberlin, 1919 ...............USA
D. crosbyi Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940 ...............USA
D. dauna Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958 ...............USA, Bahama Is.
D. formidolosa Gertsch & Ivie, 1936 ...............USA, Canada
D. gloria Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 ...............USA
D. idahoana Chamberlin & Ivie, 1933 ...............USA
D. juno Ivie, 1947 ...............USA
D. longispina Emerton, 1888 ...............USA
D. major Menge, 1869 ...............Holarctic
D. marilina Chamberlin, 1948 ...............USA
D. minuta Emerton, 1888 ...............USA, Canada
D. mora Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958 ...............USA
D. nebraska Gertsch, 1946 ...............USA
D. peon Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958 ...............USA, Mexico
D. personata Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936 ...............USA, Mexico
D. pictella Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958 ...............USA
D. pusilla Thorell, 1856 ...............Palearctic
D. quadrispinosa Emerton, 1919 ...............USA
D. saepei Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941 ...............USA
D. saltona Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958 ...............USA
D. sancta Gertsch, 1946 ...............USA, Canada
D. secuta Chamberlin, 1924 ...............USA, Mexico
D. sierra Chamberlin, 1948 ...............USA
D. subpinicola Ivie, 1947 ...............USA
D. sylvania Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 ...............USA
D. terrestris Emerton, 1911 ...............USA
D. tridentata Bishop & Ruderman, 1946 ...............USA
D. tucsona Chamberlin, 1948 ...............USA, Mexico
D. uncinata Thorell, 1856 ...............Palearctic
D. volucripes Keyserling, 1881 ...............North America
D. volucripes volucripoides Ivie, 1947 ...............USA
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution