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Dictyna foliacea - female

Dictyna foliacea - Female
Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas, USA
May 28, 2015
Size: 2 mm
This is a first record in BugGuide for Arkansas.

Moved
Moved from Dictyna foliacea. Thanks for the explanation. I agree there are way too many species to be able to ID this one to species at this point. Hopefully we can use your info and some range info and some expert advice to move it to genus & species when we know more.

Hi Norman & Cheryl,
Can you please explain how you know this spider is this species? These are really hard to ID by habitus alone, but if you have some way to ID them, please leave that as a comment on the image so that we can learn from you. Thanks!

 
Hi, Lynette,
For the past three years I have been using Bradley's guide with its wonderful illustrations to teach myself spiders.But I expect I am reading Bradley naively.We have a Dictynid here with a typical messy web wrapped around dead twig tips, brown legs, a variably marked abdomen, with a dark cephalothorax with five white stripes, which we call (after Bradley) Dictyna volucripes; we have another Dictynid which makes its web over the top of a single leaf, which has yellow legs, variable abdomen, and a dark cephalothorax with three white stripes, which we name Emblyna sublata (after Bradley); and occasionally another Dictynid half the size of the others, a web like D. volucripes, yellow legs like E. sublata, and a single white stripe on the cephalothorax, which we name Dictyna foliacea (again after Bradley). But reading about just how many dozens of species there are, and what a taxonomic mess the family is in, I am guessing things are more complicated than I realized, so I certainly won't we giving any advice in IDing the species. N.L.

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