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Genus: Emblyna Chamberlin, 1948 | Family: Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871

Emblyna maxima (Banks, 1892)

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Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA

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Taxonomic References

Dictyna maxima Banks, 1892a: 28, pl. 1, f. 79, pl. 4, f. 79 (Df) Original description

Dictyna maxima Banks, 1916: 71, pl. 10, f. 15 (Dm)

Dictyna maxima Jones, 1947: 23, f. 62-66 (mf)

Dictyna maxima Kaston, 1948: 509, f. 1895, 1932-1933 (mf)

Dictyna maxima Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 130, pl. 38, f. 9, pl. 40, f. 1-4 (mf)

Emblyna maxima Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 69, f. 581-583 (mf)

Emblyna maxima Montana et al., 2025: 15, f. 7D-F, 28A-F (m)

References

Banks, N. (1892a). The spider fauna of the Upper Cayuga Lake Basin. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 44: 11-81, pl. 1-5. -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1916). Revision of Cayuga Lake spiders. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 68: 68-84. -- 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

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. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. -- 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