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Species Dictyna foliacea

Dictynid female - Dictyna foliacea - female

Dictyna foliacea--voucher image - Dictyna foliacea - female

wrestling mesh web weavers - Dictyna foliacea - male

mesh web weaver - Dictyna foliacea - male

Dictyna foliacea--voucher image - Dictyna foliacea - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynae)

Family Dictynidae (Mesh Web Weavers)

Genus Dictyna

Species foliacea (Dictyna foliacea)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

See the World Spider Catalog.

Size

1.6-2.7mm (1)

Identification

Epigynum:

Palp:

Range

Florida to Maine and west to Dakotas and Texas. (1)

Works Cited

1.	The Spider Family Dictynidae in American North of Mexico R.V. Chamberlin and W.J. Gertsch. 1958. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History; Vol. 116 : Article 1.

Contributed by Chad Heins on 20 October, 2015 - 9:15am
Last updated 15 February, 2023 - 2:38pm

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