Taxon details
Spagnius foliaceus (Hentz, 1850)
- Rank: Species (Genus type)
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2025-07-07
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022278]
- Distribution: Canada, USA
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Theridion morologum Hentz, 1850: 277, pl. 9, f. 13 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065394].
Dictyna vittata Keyserling, 1884b: 663, pl. 21, f. 12 (Dmf; preoccupied by Keyserling, 1883, see Dictyna vittata) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065395].
Dictyna frondea Emerton, 1888: 449, pl. 9, f. 9 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065396].
Dictyna frondea Emerton, 1902: 208, f. 481 (mf).
Dictyna foliacea Petrunkevitch, 1911: 109.
Dictyna foliacea Comstock, 1940: 285, f. 271 (f).
Dictyna foliacea Muma, 1943: 28, pl. XI, f. 4 (f).
Dictyna frondea Muma, 1943: 28, pl. 9, f. 3 (f).
Dictyna sublata Jones, 1947: 31, f. 78-81, 86 (mf; misidentified per Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 74, 128).
Dictyna foliacea Kaston, 1948: 507, f. 1951, 1972-1974 (mf, S of Dictyna frondea).
Dictyna foliacea Gertsch, in Roewer, 1955c: 1321 (S of Dictyna vittata Keyserling, 1884 and Theridion morologum).
Dictyna foliacea Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 73, pl. 19, f. 8-13 (mf, S of Dictyna vittata Keyserling, 1884 and Theridion morologum confirmed).
Dictyna foliacea Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 68, f. 560-562 (mf).
Spagnius foliacea Montana et al., 2025: 90 (T from Dictyna).
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] 
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Comstock, J. H. (1940). The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, 727 pp. -- 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. Boston, 225 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.5617 -- Show included taxa
Hentz, N. M. (1850). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 6: 18-35, 271-295. -- 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
Keyserling, E. (1884b). Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. V. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 33: 649-684, pl. 21. -- 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. [2nd pdf contains the Suppl. Figs 1-5] doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf007 -- Show included taxa
Muma, M. H. (1943). Common spiders of Maryland. Natural History Society of Maryland, Baltimore, 179 pp. -- Show included taxa
Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. -- Show included taxa
Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- Show included taxa
Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-07 | Species updated | Species epithet corrected (Old value) | |
| 2025-07-07 | New taxonomic reference entry | Montana et al., 2025 | n/a |
| 2025-07-07 | Species transferred to new genus | Montana et al., 2025 | Species transferred from Dictyna to Spagnius |