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)
Image(s) of Habitus:
Credit: Nieuwenhuys, Ed
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:
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Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Aranea viridissima Walckenaer 1802 |
| Drassus viridissimus Walckenaer 1805 |
| Ergatis viridissima Blackwall 1841 |
| Argus viridissimus Walckenaer 1847 |
| Dictyna viridissima Simon 1874 |
| Dictyna viridissima Bertkau 1883 |
| Dictyna viridissima Becker 1896 |
| Dictyna viridissima J. Berland 1913 |
| Dictyna viridissima Simon 1914 |
| Dictyna viridissima Reimoser 1932 |
| Dictyna viridissima Drensky 1940 |
| Dictyna viridissima Chrysanthus 1949 |
| Dictyna viridissima Locket & Millidge 1951 |
| Dictyna walckenaeri Roewer 1951 |
| Nigma walckenaeri Roewer 1951 |
| Dictyna walckenaeri Wiehle 1953 |
| Heterodictyna viridissima Chamberlin & Gertsch 1958 |
| Nigma walckenaeri Lehtinen 1967 |
| Dictyna viridissima Loksa 1969 |
| Heterodictyna walckenaeri Locket, Millidge & Merrett 1974 |
| Dictyna viridissima Barrientos & Ferrández 1982 |
| Nigma walckenaeri Roberts 1985 |
| Nigma walckenaeri Heimer & Nentwig 1991 |
| Nigma walckenaeri Roberts 1995 |
| Nigma walckenaeri Roberts 1998 |
Taxonomic References†
Barrientos, J. A. & M. A. Ferr ndez. 1982. La colección de araneidos del Departamento de Zoología de la Universidad de Salamanca, III: arañas migalomorfas, haploginas, y cribeladas. Boln Asoc. esp. Entomologia 5: 75-86.
Becker, L. 1896. Les arachnides de Belgique. Ann. Mus. Roy. Hist. nat. Belg. 12: 1-3788.
Berland, J. 1913. Note préliminaire sur le cribellum et le calamistrum des araignées cribellates et sur les moeurs de ces araignées. Arch. Zool. expér. gen. 51(Notes & Rev.): 23-41
Bertkau, P. 1883. Über die Gattung Argenna Thor. und einige anderen Dictyniden. Arch. Naturg. 49: 374-382.
Blackwall, J. 1841. The difference in the number of eyes with which spiders are provided proposed as the basis of their distribution into tribes; with descriptions of newly discovered species and the characters of a new family and three new genera of spiders. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 18: 601-670.
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. J. Gertsch. 1958. The spider family Dictynidae in America north of Mexico. Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 116: 1-152.
Chrysanthus, P. 1949. Paringsbiologie bij spinnen. In In het Voetspoor van Thijsse. Wageningen, H. Veenman, pp. 349-359.
Drensky, P. 1940. Die Spinnenfauna Bulgariens IV. Mitt. Nat. Instit. Sofia 13: 169-194.
Heimer, S. & W. Nentwig. 1991. Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Verlag Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp.
Lehtinen, P. T. 1967. Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Ann. Zool. Fenn. 4: 199-468.
Locket, G. H. & A. F. Millidge. 1951. British spiders. Ray Society, London, 1: 1-310.
Locket, G. H., A. F. Millidge & P. Merrett. 1974. British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp.
Loksa, I. 1969. Araneae I. Fauna Hungariae 97: 1-133.
Reimoser, E. 1932. Einheimische Spinnen 10. Die Natur (Vienna) 8: 7-12, 60-64.
Roberts, M. J. 1998. Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp.
Roberts, M. J. 1995. Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.
Roberts, M. J. 1985. The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books, Colchester, England.
Roewer, C. F. 1951. Neue Namen einiger Araneen-Arten. Abh. naturw. Ver. Bremen 32: 437-456.
Simon, E. 1914. Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae; 1re partie. Paris, 6: 1-308.
Simon, E. 1874. Les arachnides de France. Paris, 1: 1-272.
Walckenaer, C. A. 1847. Histoire naturelles des Insects. Aptères. Paris, 4: 1-623 (Araneae, pp. 365-564).
Walckenaer, C. A. 1805. Tableau des aranéides ou caractères essentiels des tribus, genres, familles et races que renferme le genre Aranea de Linné, avec la désignation des espèces comprises dans chacune de ces divisions. Paris, 88 pp.
Walckenaer, C. A. 1802. Faune parisienne. Insectes. ou Histoire abrégée des insectes de environs de Paris. Paris 2: 187-250.
Wiehle, H. 1953. Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae) IX: Orthognatha-Cribellatae-Haplogynae-Entelegynae (Pholcidae, Zodariidae, Oxyopidae, Mimetidae, Nesticidae). Tierwelt Deutschlands 42: i-viii, 1-150.
†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 Nigma Lehtinen, 1967‡‡
N. flavescens (Walckenaer, 1830) ...............Palearctic
N. linsdalei (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) ...............USA
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution