Emblyna cruciata (Emerton, 1888)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022386

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Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA

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  • Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1m (IZ151460) - (Montana et al., 2025)
Taxonomic References
Dictyna cruciata Emerton, 1888: 448, pl. 9, f. 6 (Dmf) Original description
Dictyna cruciata Emerton, 1902: 210, f. 482-483 (mf)
Dictyna cruciata Jones, 1947: 27, f. 70 (f)
Dictyna cruciata Kaston, 1948: 508, f. 1896, 1934-1936 (mf)
Dictyna cruciata Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 111, pl. 33, f. 1-4 (mf)
Emblyna cruciata Paquin, Arbour & Simard, 2021: 78, f. 1-3 (f)
Emblyna cruciata Montana et al., 2025: 66, 85, f. 58A (m, f. sub Arethyna)
References

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

Emerton, J. H. (1888). New England spiders of the family Ciniflonidae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 7: 443-458. -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1902). The common spiders of the United States. Ginn & Company Publ., Boston & London, 225 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.5617 -- Show included taxa

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

Kaston, B. J. (1948). Spiders of Connecticut. Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874. -- 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

Paquin, P., Arbour, G. & Simard, C. (2021). Première mention d'Emblyna cruciata (Emerton 1888) (Araneae: Dictynidae) au Québec. Hutchinsonia 1: 77-79. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-07-07 New taxonomic reference entry Montana et al., 2025
2021-11-21 New taxonomic reference entry Paquin, Arbour & Simard, 2021

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