The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/22432
Emblyna sublata (Hentz, 1850)
FAMILY: DICTYNIDAE O. P.-Cambridge, 1871
Genus: Emblyna Chamberlin, 1948
Species: Emblyna sublata (Hentz, 1850)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
meshweavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA
Nearctic States & Provinces:
QC CT MA MI NH OK SD WI
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†
| Emblyna sublata Hentz 1850 |
| Theridion sublatum Hentz 1850 |
| Theridion hypophyllum Fitch 1869 |
| Tegenaria philoteichos McCook 1876 |
| Dictyna sedentaria Keyserling 1881 |
| Dictyna volupis Keyserling 1881 |
| Dictyna volupis Keyserling 1884 |
| Dictyna volupis Emerton 1888 |
| Dictyna decorata Banks 1892 |
| Dictyna dubia Banks 1892 |
| Dictyna sublata Banks 1892 |
| Dictyna philoteichos McCook 1894 |
| Dictyna volupis Emerton 1902 |
| Dictyna sublata Comstock 1940 |
| Dictyna frondea Muma 1943 |
| Dictyna sublata Kaston 1945 |
| Dictyna sublata Kaston 1948 |
| Emblyna sublata Chamberlin 1948 |
| Dictyna sublata Chamberlin & Gertsch 1958 |
| Dictyna sublata Shear 1967 |
| Emblyna sublata Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
Taxonomic References†
Banks, N. 1892. The spider fauna of the Upper Cayuga Lake Basin. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1892: 11-81.
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.
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.
Fitch, A. 1869. Thirteenth report on the noxious insects. Trans. N. Y. St. Agric. Soc. 29: 495-565 (Araneae, pp. 562-564).
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.
Kaston, B. J. 1945. New Micryphantidae and Dictynidae with notes on other spiders. Am. Mus. Novit. 1292: 1-14.
Keyserling, E. 1884. Neue Spinnen aus America. V. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 33: 649-684.
Keyserling, E. 1881. Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. II. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 30: 547-582.
Keyserling, E. 1881. Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. III. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 31: 269-314.
McCook, H. C. 1894. American spiders and their spinningwork. Philadelphia, 3: 1-285.
McCook, H., C. 1876. On webs of new species of spiders. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1876: 200-201.
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.
Shear, W. A. 1967. Expanding the palpi of male spiders. Breviora 259: 1-27.
†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. reticulata (Gertsch & Ivie, 1936) ...............USA, Mexico
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. 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