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Genus Dictyna

unknown spider - Dictyna calcarata voucher images - Dictyna calcarata - male Dictyna volucripes--Voucher image - Dictyna volucripes - female Dictyna male - nr. saepei?   - Dictyna saepei - male D. calcarata male - Dictyna calcarata - male Spider - Dictyna volucripes - female Dictynidae - Dictyna foliacea White spider with dark pattern on abdomen  - Dictyna
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
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Numbers
There are 43 species & 2 sub-species in the USA/Canada.
Identification
D. foliacea typically has a pale median area on the abdomen with an distinct undulating border. On the carapace there appears to be one prominent row of white hairs. There are few species to confuse it with in the east but some Emblyna sublata can be similar; this species typically has multiple white hair rows on the carapace.
Range
Exact distribution within these countries will be added when time permits.

abundans Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941 - USA
agressa Ivie, 1947 - USA
alaskae - Holarctic
annexa - USA, Mexico
apacheca - USA
arundinacea - Holarctic
bellans - USA, Mexico
- bellans hatchi - USA
bostoniensis - USA, Canada
brevitarsa - USA, Canada, Alaska
calcarata Banks - USA, Mexico, Hawaii
cavata - USA, Cuba
cebolla - USA
cholla - USA, Mexico
civica - Europe, North Africa, North America
coloradensis - USA
crosbyi - USA
dauna - USA, Bahama Is.
foliacea - USA, Canada
formidolosa - USA, Canada
gloria - USA
idahoana - USA
juno - USA
longispina - USA
major - Holarctic
marilina - USA
minuta - USA, Canada
mora - USA
nebraska - USA
peon - USA, Mexico
personata - USA, Mexico
pictella - USA
quadrispinosa - USA
saepei - USA
saltona - USA
sancta - USA, Canada
secuta - USA, Mexico
sierra - USA
subpinicola - USA
sylvania - USA
terrestris - USA
tridentata - USA
tucsona - USA, Mexico
volucripes - North America
- volucripes volucripoides - USA