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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Mesh Web Weavers (Dictynidae) » Dictyna » Dictyna foliacea
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Dictynid female - Dictyna foliacea - female
Copyright © 2013 Chad Heins

Dictynid female - Dictyna foliacea - Female
Black Dog Preserve, Dakota County, Minnesota, USA
June 27, 2013
Size: 3mm
Found during sweep of calcareous fen during bioblitz with USFWS.

I've been through Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958, Kaston, 1948, and Paquin & Duperre, 2003. None of the epigyna seem to match. It keys out to Dictyna/Emblyna in C & G, 1958.

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Contributed by Chad Heins on 2 July, 2013 - 2:01pm
Last updated 4 June, 2019 - 7:17pm

Moved
Moved from Mesh Web Weavers.
… Chad Heins, 4 June, 2019 - 7:17pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Chad Heins, 28 November, 2013 - 9:14pm login or register to post comments

Dictynid female
Good luck, we certainly need all the voucher images we can get in this family. It's a tough group.
… Lynette Elliott, 3 July, 2013 - 8:08am login or register to post comments

 
Yep
I have a feeling that I'm just going to have to curl up with Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958 and read it cover to cover. The drawings in my copy were scanned too dark so detail is limited.
… Chad Heins, 3 July, 2013 - 8:10am login or register to post comments

 
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Good luck for sure. Looks like there might be some extra detail in the middle of the epigynum, obscured by hair?
… Kyron Basu, 3 July, 2013 - 3:22pm login or register to post comments

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