Numbers
Approximately 290 species in 20 genera
(1).
Identification
Eye arrangement in Dictyna and another member of the family:
Range
Exact distribution within these countries will be added when time permits.
Argenna
- obesa - USA & Canada
- yakima - USA
Argennina
- unica - USA
Blabomma
- californicum - USA
- flavipes - USA
- foxi - USA
- guttatum - USA
- hexops - USA
- lahondae - USA
- oregonense - USA
- sanctum - USA
- sylvicola - USA
- yosemitense - USA
Brommella
- bishopi - USA
- lactea - USA
- monticola - USA
Cicurina
- aenigma
- alpicora
- arcata - USA & Canada
- arizona
- arkansa
- armadillo
- atomaria
- bandera
- bandida
- baronia
- barri
- blanco
- breviaria
- brevis - USA & Canada
- browni
- brunsi
- bryantae
- bullis
- buwata
- caliga
- cavealis
- colorada
- coryelli
- davisi
- delrio
- deserticola
- dorothea
- ezelli
- gertschi
- gruta
- harrietae
- hexops
- holsingeri
- hoodensis
- idahoana - USA & Canada
- intermedia
- itasca
- jonesi
- joya
- loftini
- ludoviciana
- machete
- madla
- marmorea
- mckenziei
- medina
- menardia
- microps
- minima
- minnesota
- minorata
- mirifica
- mixmaster
- modesta
- neovespera
- nevadensis
- obscura
- oklahoma
- orellia
- pablo
- pacifica
- pagosa
- pallida
- pampa
- parma
- pastura
- patei
- peckhami - USA, Canada, Alaska
- placida
- platypus
- puentecilla
- pusilla
- rainesi
- reclusa
- reddelli
- riogrande
- robusta
- rosae
- rudimentops
- russelli
- sansaba
- secreta
- selecta
- serena
- shasta
- sheari
- sierra
- simplex - USA, Canada, Alaska
- sintonia
- sprousei
- stowersi
- suttoni
- tacoma
- tersa - USA, Canada
- texana
- tortuba
- travisae
- troglobia
- ubicki
- utahana
- uvalde
- varians - USA
- venefica - USA
- venii - USA
- vespera - USA
- vibora - USA
- wartoni - USA
- watersi - USA
- wiltoni - USA
(not finished with this yet)
Remarks
Spiders in the family can be cribellate or ecribellate.
Print References
Chamberlin and Gertsch, 1958, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History,
The spider family Dictynidae in America north of Mexico. Warning - this is a large pdf file (39 MB) that may take several minutes to download. Also, according to the chapter in Spiders of North America
(1) by Robert Bennett, this paper only revises the
cribellate dictynids.