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