Khalotyna calcarata (Banks, 1904)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022262

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Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA, Mexico. Introduced to Hawaii

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  • Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m (IZ20638) - (Montana et al., 2025)
Taxonomic References
Dictyna calcarata Banks, 1904b: 342, pl. 40, f. 42 (Dm) Original description
Dictyna dactylata Chamberlin in Chamberlin & Woodbury, 1929: 131 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059129]
Dictyna hoples Chamberlin in Chamberlin & Woodbury, 1929: 132 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059130]
Dictyna calcarata Gertsch & Davis, 1937: 17 (Df)
Dictyna calcarata Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940: 330
Dictyna calcarata Jones, 1947: 25, f. 67 (f)
Tosyna calcarata Chamberlin, 1948: 30, pl. 6, f. 68-69 (mf)
Dictyna calcarata Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 64, pl. 17, f. 1-6 (mf, T from Tosyna, S of Dictyna dactylata and D. hoples)
Khalotyna calcarata Montana et al., 2025: 86, f. 64A-F (m, T from Dictyna)
References

Banks, N. (1904b). Some Arachnida from California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (3) 3: 331-376. -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. & Woodbury, A. M. (1929). Notes on the spiders of Washington County, Utah. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 42: 131-141, pl. 1-2. [[text of pl. 1 belongs to pl. 2 and vice versa]] -- Show included taxa

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

Gertsch, W. J. & Davis, L. I. (1937). Report on a collection of spiders from Mexico. I. American Museum Novitates 961: 1-29. -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S. (1940). The spiders of Texas. I. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 77: 307-340. -- Show included taxa

Jones, S. (1947). Descriptions of some species of the spider genus Dictyna. Field and Laboratory 15: 1-35. -- Show included taxa

Montana, K. O., Cala-Riquelme, F., Crews, S. C., Gorneau, J. A., Al-Jamal, A. M., Alequín, L. D., Spagna, J. C., Ballarin, F. & Esposito, L. A. (2025). Tailor's drawer no more: a reappraisal of the spider family Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 sensu lato. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(2, zlaf007): 1-97. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf007 [[2nd pdf contains the Suppl. Figs 1-5]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-07-07 New taxonomic reference entry Montana et al., 2025
2025-07-07 Species transferred to new genus Montana et al., 2025 Species transferred from Dictyna to Khalotyna

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