Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871

Family |   ACCEPTED
N.B.: considered a senior synoym of Rhioidae Thorell, 1873 by Simon, 1892a: 241 (by transfer of the type genus); Blabomma and Yorima are transferred from the Dictynidae to the Cybaeidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 606; Argyroneta was transferred from the Cybaeidae to the Dictynidae and Cicurina (as well as Chorizomma and Mastigusa [transferred to the Cybaeidae by Castellucci et al., 2023: 6], which are not explicitely listed by Wheeler et al., 2017) from the Dictynidae to the Hahniidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 607; Cicurinidae are new circumscribed (Bromella, Cicurina and Chorizomma) and elevated to family by Gorneau et al., 2023: 11; Dictynidae were considered not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 515, f. 15-16; Argyronetidae are separated from the Dictynidae by Montana et al., 2025: 9 and include 12 genera, Argyroneta probably represents an own subfamily; Argyronetidae were seperated before (Ono, 2009a: 169, Murphy & Roberts, 2015: viii, with the single genus Argyroneta), but this was not accepted; Lathyidae are also separated from the Dictynidae by Montana et al., 2025: 43 and include 10 genera; Dictynidae are redefined by Montana et al., 2025: 79.
Gen. Califorenigma Cala-Riquelme, Gorneau & Esposito, 2025 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06309
type Heterodictyna linsdalei Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958; gender feminine
Califorenigma linsdalei (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) | | USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022513 TYPE SPECIES
Heterodictyna linsdalei Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 47, pl. 10, f. 8-13 (Dmf) Original description
Heterodictyna linsdalei Lehtinen, 1967: 210 (may belong to Ajmonia or Dictynomorpha)
Heterodictyna linsdalei Roth, 1982: 15-2, f. 8-9 (mf)
Nigma linsdalei Brignoli, 1983c: 515 (T from Heterodictyna)
Heterodictyna linsdalei Roth, 1985: B11-3, f. 8-9 (mf)
Heterodictyna linsdalei Roth, 1994: 91, f. 8-9 (mf)
Nigma linsdalei Griswold et al., 2005: 21, f. 176A (m)
"Nigma" linsdalei Esyunin, Zamani & Tuneva, 2017: 60 (incertae sedis, misplaced in this genus)
Califorenigma linsdalei Montana et al., 2025: 83 (m, T from Nigma)

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