Tivyna spatula (Gertsch & Davis, 1937)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022562

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Described:

Distribution: USA, Mexico, Bahamas, Cuba, Galapagos

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Taxonomic References
Dictyna spatula Gertsch & Davis, 1937: 14, f. 17-18 (Df) Original description
Dictyna cubana Bryant, 1940: 298, pl. 4, f. 58, pl. 5, f. 62-63 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058706]
Dictyna spathula Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 51, pl. 11, f. 1-6 (mf. S of Dictyna cubana)
Tivyna spathula Lehtinen, 1967: 271 (T from Dictyna)
Tivyna spatula Baert et al., 2023: 8, f. 24A-C (mf)
Tivyna spatula Montana et al., 2025: 34, f. 26A-F (m)
References

Baert, L., Maelfait, J.-P., Desender, K., Hendrickx, F., Dekoninck, W., Berthet, M., Bouckaert, K., Caudron, J. & Leclercq, M. (2023). Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands. Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188. [[includes figs of 5 undescribed species]] -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1940). Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 86: 247-532. -- 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

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [[second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)]] -- 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
2024-12-22 New taxonomic reference entry Baert et al., 2023
2024-12-22 Species distribution update Baert et al., 2023 Old value

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