The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/22337

Dictyna tridentata Bishop & Ruderman, 1946

FAMILY: DICTYNIDAE O. P.-Cambridge, 1871
    Genus: Dictyna Sundevall, 1833

        Species: Dictyna tridentata Bishop & Ruderman, 1946

Common Names

Family Common Name:  meshweavers
Genus Common Name:  none
Species Common Name:  none

Distribution

Global Distribution: USA
Nearctic States & Provinces:   CO MT WY
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:

   seasonality
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 tridentata Bishop & Ruderman 1946
Dictyna banksi Jones 1947
Dictyna tridentata Chamberlin & Gertsch 1958

Taxonomic References

Bishop, S. & C. Ruderman. 1946. Four new species of Dictyna. Proc. biol. Soc. Wash. 59: 1-8.

Chamberlin, R. V. & W. J. Gertsch. 1958. The spider family Dictynidae in America north of Mexico. Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 116: 1-152.

Jones, S. 1947. Descriptions of some species of the spider genus Dictyna. Field and Laboratory 15: 1-35.

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. foliacea (Hentz, 1850) ...............USA, Canada
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. 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