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Emblyna reticulata (Gertsch & Ivie, 1936)

FAMILY: DICTYNIDAE O. P.-Cambridge, 1871
    Genus: Emblyna Chamberlin, 1948

        Species: Emblyna reticulata (Gertsch & Ivie, 1936)

Common Names

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

Distribution

Global Distribution: USA, Mexico
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 declarata Gertsch & Mulaik 1936
Dictyna reticulata Gertsch & Ivie 1936
Emblyna reticulata Gertsch & Ivie 1936
Dictyna reticulata Gertsch & Davis 1937
Dictyna reticulata Gertsch & Mulaik 1940
Dictyna californica Jones 1947
Emblyna reticulata Chamberlin 1948
Emblyna rosana Chamberlin 1948
Dictyna reticulata Chamberlin & Gertsch 1958
Dictyna reticulata Roth 1985
Dictyna reticulata Breene et al. 1993
Dictyna reticulata Roth 1994

Taxonomic References

Breene, R. G., D. A. Dean, M. Nyffeler & G. B. Edwards. 1993. Biology, Predation Ecology, and Significance of Spiders in Texas Cotton Ecosystems with a Key to Species. Texas Agriculture Experiment Station, College Station, 115 pp.

Chamberlin, R. V. 1948. The genera of North American Dictynidae. Bull. Univ. Utah 38(15): 1-31.

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

Gertsch, W. J. & L. I. Davis. 1937. Report on a collection of spiders from Mexico. I. Amer. Mus. Novit. 961: 1-29.

Gertsch, W. J. & S. Mulaik. 1940. The spiders of Texas. I. Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 77: 307-340.

Gertsch, W. J. & S. Mulaik. 1936. Diagnoses of new southern Spiders. Amer. Mus. Novit. 851: 1-21.

Gertsch, W. J. & W. Ivie. 1936. Descriptions of new American spiders. Amer. Mus. Novit. 858: 1-25.

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

Roth, V. D. 1994. Spider Genera of North America, with Keys to Families and Genera, and a Guide to Literature, third edition. Am. Arachnol. Soc., Gainesville, 203 pp.

Roth, V. D. 1985. Spider genera of North America. American Arachnological Society, Gainesville, Florida.

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 Emblyna Chamberlin, 1948‡‡

E. aiko (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) ...............USA
E. altamira (Gertsch & Davis, 1942) ...............USA, Mexico, Greater Antilles
E. angulata (Emerton, 1915) ...............USA
E. annulipes (Blackwall, 1846) ...............Holarctic
E. ardea (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) ...............USA
E. artemisia (Ivie, 1947) ...............USA
E. borealis (O. P.-Cambridge, 1877) ...............Russia, USA, Canada, Greenland
E. borealis cavernosa (Jones, 1947) ...............USA
E. branchi (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) ...............USA
E. brevidens (Kulczynski, 1897) ...............Palearctic
E. callida (Gertsch & Ivie, 1936) ...............USA, Mexico
E. capens Chamberlin, 1948 ...............USA
E. chitina (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) ...............Alaska, Canada
E. completa (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1929) ...............USA
E. completoides (Ivie, 1947) ...............USA, Canada
E. consulta (Gertsch & Ivie, 1936) ...............North America
E. cornupeta (Bishop & Ruderman, 1946) ...............USA, Mexico
E. coweta (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) ...............USA
E. crocana Chamberlin, 1948 ...............USA
E. cruciata (Emerton, 1888) ...............USA, Canada
E. decaprini (Kaston, 1945) ...............USA
E. evicta (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940) ...............USA
E. florens (Ivie & Barrows, 1935) ...............USA
E. francisca (Bishop & Ruderman, 1946) ...............USA
E. hentzi (Kaston, 1945) ...............USA, Canada
E. horta (Gertsch & Ivie, 1936) ...............USA
E. hoya (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941) ...............USA
E. iviei (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936) ...............USA, Mexico
E. joaquina (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) ...............USA
E. jonesae (Roewer, 1955) ...............USA
E. klamatha (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) ...............USA
E. lina (Gertsch, 1946) ...............USA, Mexico
E. linda (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) ...............USA
E. littoricolens (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) ...............USA
E. manitoba (Ivie, 1947) ...............USA, Canada
E. mariae Chamberlin, 1948 ...............USA, Mexico
E. marissa (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) ...............USA
E. maxima (Banks, 1892) ...............USA, Canada
E. melva (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) ...............USA
E. mitis (Thorell, 1875) ...............Palearctic
E. nanda (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) ...............USA
E. oasa (Ivie, 1947) ...............USA
E. olympiana (Chamberlin, 1919) ...............USA
E. orbiculata (Jones, 1947) ...............USA
E. oregona (Gertsch, 1946) ...............USA
E. osceola (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) ...............USA
E. palomara Chamberlin, 1948 ...............USA
E. peragrata (Bishop & Ruderman, 1946) ...............USA, Canada, Alaska
E. phylax (Gertsch & Ivie, 1936) ...............USA, Canada
E. pinalia (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) ...............USA
E. piratica (Ivie, 1947) ...............USA
E. roscida (Hentz, 1850) ...............North, Central America
E. saylori (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941) ...............USA
E. scotta Chamberlin, 1948 ...............USA, Mexico
E. seminola (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) ...............USA
E. serena (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) ...............USA
E. shasta (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) ...............USA
E. shoshonea (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) ...............USA
E. stulta (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936) ...............USA
E. sublata (Hentz, 1850) ...............USA
E. sublatoides (Ivie & Barrows, 1935) ...............USA
E. suprenans (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935) ...............USA
E. suwanea (Gertsch, 1946) ...............USA
E. uintana (Chamberlin, 1919) ...............USA
E. zaba (Barrows & Ivie, 1942) ...............USA

‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution