Taxon details


Dictyna major Menge, 1869

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-09-06
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022300]
  • Distribution: North America, Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), Tajikistan, China
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg (ZISP), Russia; f of Dictyna sibirica (Marusik, 2022b)
  • Syntype: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg (ZISP), Russia; 2f of Dictyna sibirica simulans (Marusik, 2022b)
Taxonomic references
Dictyna major Menge, 1869: 247, pl. 48, f. 147 (Dm).
Dictyna cognata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885a: 237, pl. 9, f. A (Dm).
Dictyna arenicola O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894b: 589, pl. 12, f. 1-2 (Dmf).
Dictyna sibirica Kulczyński, 1908b: 6, pl. 1, f. 1-2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054543].
Dictyna major Simon, 1914: 55, 57, 65, f. 114, 121 (mf).
Dictyna sibirica simulans Kulczyński, 1916: 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022287].
Dictyna vincens Chamberlin, 1919a: 243, pl. 15, f. 1-2 (Dmf).
Dictyna major Schenkel, 1930b: 5, f. 2 (f).
Dictyna major Brændegaard, 1934: 47 (S of Dictyna hamifera; revalidated by Palmgren, 1977a: 20).
Dictyna major Jackson, 1934a: 612, pl. 18, f. 1 (f).
Dictyna major Brændegaard, 1940: 7, f. 2, 4, 6 (mf).
Dictyna chenea Chamberlin, 1948: 7, pl. 1, f. 2 (Df).
Dictyna clackamas Chamberlin, 1948: 7, pl. 6, f. 66 (Df).
Dictyna major Locket & Millidge, 1951: 60, f. 23E, 25B, F (mf).
Dictyna major Locket & Millidge, 1953: 406, f. 251D (f).
Dictyna major Wiehle, 1953: 100, f. 218-221 (mf).
Dictyna major Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 82, pl. 24, f. 2-4 (mf).
Dictyna potanini Schenkel, 1963: 26, f. 9 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054648].
Dictyna major Brændegaard, 1966: 49, f. 37-40 (mf).
Dictyna major Holm, 1967: 87, f. 103 (f).
Dictyna major Loksa, 1969: 41, f. 26L, 33D-E (f).
Dictyna major Song, 1982a: 101 (S of Dictyna potanini, removed from S of Dictyna arundinacea, rejecting Lehtinen, 1967: 228).
Dictyna major Roberts, 1985: 50, f. 14c (mf).
Dictyna major Song & Lu, 1985: 77, f. 2A-C (mf).
Dictyna major Song, 1987: 75, f. 40 (mf).
Dictyna major Zhang, 1987: 53, f. 38.1-4 (mf).
Dictyna major Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 374, f. 975 (mf).
Dictyna major Danilov, 1994: 202, f. 11-14 (mf).
Dictyna major Roberts, 1995: 84, f. (mf).
Dictyna major Roberts, 1998: 86, f. (mf).
Dictyna major Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 364, f. 214O-P, 215H (mf).
Dictyna major Danilov, 2000: 42, f. 14 (f).
Dictyna major Hu, 2001: 104, f. 23.1-3 (mf).
Dictyna major Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 285, f. 179A-C (mf).
Dictyna major Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 68, f. 563-565 (mf).
Dictyna major Marusik, Böcher & Koponen, 2006: 63, f. 1-2 (f).
Dictyna major Almquist, 2006: 313, f. 274a-g (mf).
Dictyna major Marusik & Fritzén, 2011: 103, f. 4-5, 16-17, 26-27, 34-39 (mf).
Dictyna major Davidson, 2015: 24, unnumbered f. (mf).
Dictyna major Marusik, 2015: 674, f. 6D, 8B-D (mf).
Dictyna major Marusik, 2022b: 418, f. 3a-g, j-k (f, S of Dictyna sibirica (removed from S of Dictyna hamifera, rejecting Eskov, 1985: 122) and Dictyna sibirica simulans).
Dictyna major Sies, 2023: 19, f. 1-2 (m).
References

Almquist, S. (2006). Swedish Araneae, part 2 – families Dictynidae to Salticidae. Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 63: 285-601. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Brændegaard, J. (1940). I. Spiders (Araneina) from northeast Greenland between lats. 70°25' and 76°50' N. II. On the possibility of a reliable determination of species of the females of the genus Erigone. Meddelelser om Grønland 125(8): 1-29. ("Literature": p. [30]-[31]) download pdf -- Show included taxa

Brændegaard, J. (1966). Edderkopper eller spindlere I. Danmarks Fauna 72: 1-224. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Brændegaard, J. (1934). Preliminary statment of the synonymity of certain Greenland spiders. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 98: 47-48. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. (1919a). New western spiders. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 12(3): 239-260, pl. 14-19. doi:10.1093/aesa/12.3.239 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. (1948). The genera of North American Dictynidae. Bulletin of the University of Utah 38(15): 1-31. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. & Gertsch, W. J. (1958). The spider family Dictynidae in America north of Mexico. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 116: 1-152. [second pdf contains better scans of the plates] download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Danilov, S. N. (1994). Cribellate spiders (Aranei, Cribellatae) of Transbaicalia. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 73: 200-209. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Danilov, S. N. (2000). New data on the spiders of the family Dictynidae (Araneae) from Siberia. Ekológia (Bratislava) 19(Suppl. 3): 37-44. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Davidson, M. B. (2015). Identification of species in the genus Dictyna (Dictynidae). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 133: 21-24. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Holm, Å. (1967). Spiders (Araneae) from west Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 184(1): 1-99. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. (2001). Spiders in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. Henan Science and Technology Publishing House, 658 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jackson, A. R. (1934a). Notes on Arctic spiders obtained in 1933. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10) 14(84, 1933): 611-620, pl. 18. doi:10.1080/00222933408654937 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1908b). Araneae et Oribatidae. Expeditionum rossicarum in insulas Novo-Sibiricas annis 1885-1886 et 1900-1903 susceptarum. Zapiski Imperatorskoi Akademy Naouk St. Petersburg (8) 18(7): 1-97. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1916). Araneae Sibiriae occidentalis arcticae. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Petrograd (8) 28(11): 1-44. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Locket, G. H. & Millidge, A. F. (1951). British spiders. Vol. I. Ray Society, London, 310 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Locket, G. H. & Millidge, A. F. (1953). British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Loksa, I. (1969). Araneae I. Fauna Hungariae 97: 1-133. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M., Böcher, J. & Koponen, S. (2006). The collection of Greenland spiders (Aranei) kept in the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen. Arthropoda Selecta 15(1): 59-80. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. & Fritzén, N. R. (2011). On a new Dictyna species (Araneae, Dictynidae) from the northern Palaearctic confused with the east Siberian D. schmidti Kulczyński, 1926. ZooKeys 138: 93-108. doi:10.3897/zookeys.138.1849 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. (2015). Araneae (Spiders). In: Böcher, J., Kristensen, N. P., Pape, T. & Vilhelmsen, L. (eds.) The Greenland Entomofauna. An identification manual of insects, spiders and their allies. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 44: 667-703. Brill, Leiden. doi:10.1163/9789004261051_019 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. (2022b). On the three poorly known species of Dictyna Sundevall, 1833 (Araneae: Dictynidae) described from Armenia and Siberia. Journal of Natural History 56(5-8): 415-422. doi:10.1080/00222933.2022.2073479 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Menge, A. (1869). Preussische Spinnen. III. Abtheilung. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (N. F.) 2: 219-264. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1885a). Description of two new species of Araneida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 16: 237-238. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1894b). Description of a new spider from East Lothian. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh 12: 589-590. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1985). The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books, Colchester, England, 229 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1995). Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1998). Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schenkel, E. (1930b). Die Araneiden der schwedischen Kamtchatka-Expedition 1920-1922. Arkiv för Zoologi 21(A15): 1-33. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schenkel, E. (1963). Ostasiatische Spinnen aus dem Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (A, Zool.) 25: 1-481. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sies, D. (2023). Een vondst van het noords kaardertje Dictyna major (Araneae: Dictynidae) [A record of Dictyna major (Araneae: Dictynidae)]. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 40: 19-20. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1914). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 1re partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-308. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X. (1982a). Some new records and synonyms of Chinese spiders. Zoological Research 3: 101-102. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X. & Lu, L. (1985). On some dictynids from China (Araneae: Dictynidae). Sinozoologia 3: 77-83. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X. (1987). Spiders from agricultural regions of China (Arachnida: Araneae). Agriculture Publishing House, Beijing, 376 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (2001). The Fauna of Hebei, China: Araneae. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 510 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wiehle, H. (1953). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae) IX: Orthognatha-Cribellatae-Haplogynae-Entelegynae (Pholcidae, Zodariidae, Oxyopidae, Mimetidae, Nesticidae). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 42: 1-150. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhang, W. S. (ed.) (1987). [Farm spiders from Hebei Province]. Hebei University of Science and Technology Press, 299 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-01-18 New taxonomic reference entry Sies, 2023 n/a
2022-07-08 New taxonomic reference entry Marusik, 2022b n/a
2022-07-08 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon Marusik, 2022b n/a (Old value)
2022-07-08 Species synonymy Marusik, 2022b Dictyna sibirica synonymized with Dictyna major
2022-07-08 Species synonymy Marusik, 2022b Dictyna hamifera simulans synonymized with Dictyna major
2016-03-17 New taxonomic reference entry Marusik, 2015 n/a
2015-09-09 New taxonomic reference entry Davidson, 2015 n/a