World Spider Catalog

Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: Blabomma and Yorima are transferred from the Dictynidae to the Cybaeidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 606; Argyroneta is 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 Dictynidae to Hahniidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 607; Cicurinidae new circumscribed (Bromella, Cicurina and Chorizomma) and elevated to family by Gorneau et al., 2023: 11; included genera of Dictynidae listed by Gorneau et al., 2023: 12; re-separation of Argyronetidae (Ono, 2009a: 169, Murphy & Roberts, 2015: viii, with the single genus Argyroneta) not sufficiently justified and is not accepted here; considering the low bootstrap values of dichotomies in the families Agelenidae, Cybaidae, Hahniidae, Toxopidae and Dictynidae (see Wheeler et al., 2017) the proposed positon of Argyroneta is far from certain (e.g. Ono & Ogata, 2018: 618); we reflect the transfer here and state that Argyronetidae Thorell, 1869: 45 has priority under ICZN; we suggest to wait for a stable family placement and naming before a nomenclatorial action at the family name level is done; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 515, f. 15-16.

Gen. Ajmonia Caporiacco, 1934 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01957

In synonymy:

Ajmonia patellaris Caporiacco, 1934 = Ajmonia velifera Simon, 1906 (Lehtinen, 1967: 210)

Ajmonia tungabhadrai (Tikader, 1966, T from Dictyna) = Ajmonia marakata Sherriffs, 1927 (Lehtinen, 1967: 230, sub Dictynomorpha)

Ajmonia yunnanensis (Schenkel, 1963, T from Dictyna) = Ajmonia velifera Simon, 1906 (Lehtinen, 1967: 210)

Ajmonia aurita Song & Lu, 1985 | | Kazakhstan, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022046

Ajmonia auritus Song & Lu, 1985: 81, f. 6A-F (Dmf) Original description

Ajmonia auritus Song, 1987: 70, f. 35 (mf)

Ajmonia auritus Hu & Wu, 1989: 63, f. 45.1-4 (mf; misidentified per Marusik & Esyunin, 2010: 364)

Ajmonia auritus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 362, f. 212M-P (mf)

Ajmonia aurita Marusik & Esyunin, 2010: 362, f. 1A-I, 2F (mf)

Ajmonia bedeshai (Tikader, 1966) | | India (mainland, Andaman Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022360

Dictyna bedeshai Tikader, 1966d: 50, f. 4a-b (Df) Original description

Dictynomorpha bedeshai Lehtinen, 1967: 230 (T from Dictyna)

Ajmonia bedeshai Marusik, Esyunin & Tuneva, 2015: 130 (T from Dictynomorpha)

Ajmonia capucina (Schenkel, 1936) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022047

Dictyna capucina Schenkel, 1936b: 22, f. 5 (Dmf) Original description

Ajmonia capucina Song & Lu, 1985: 80, f. 5A-D (mf, T from Dictyna)

Ajmonia capucina Song, 1987: 72, f. 36 (mf)

Ajmonia capuzina Feng, 1990: 38, f. 13.1-5 (m, lapsus)

Ajmonia capucina Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 362, f. 212Q, 213A, D-E (mf)

Ajmonia capucina Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 279, f. 174A-D (mf)

Ajmonia capucina Marusik, Ovchinnikov & Koponen, 2006: 355, f. 8 (m)

Ajmonia capucina Marusik & Esyunin, 2010: 364, f. 3D-F (m)

Ajmonia capucina Zhang & Wang, 2017: 247, 10 f. (mf)

Ajmonia gratiosa (Simon, 1881) | | Portugal, Spain, North Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022048

Dictyna gratiosa Simon, 1881c: 135 (Df) Original description

Dictyna gratiosa Simon, 1885i: 31 (Dm)

Ajmonia gratiosa Lehtinen, 1967: 210 (T from Dictyna)

Nigma gratiosa Wunderlich, 2011: 316, f. 20 (m, T from Ajmonia)

Nigma gratiosa Breitling, 2018: 9, f. 2D (m)

Nigma gratiosa Crespo et al., 2018: 90, f. 5a-d (mf)

Nigma gratiosa Breitling, 2020: 341, f. 7B (m)

Ajmonia gratiosa Wunderlich, 2022: 36, f. 72-73 (m, T from Nigma)

Ajmonia lehtineni Marusik & Koponen, 1998 | | Mongolia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022049

Ajmonia lehtineni Marusik & Koponen, 1998: 79, f. 1-5 (Dmf) Original description

Ajmonia lehtineni Marusik & Esyunin, 2010: 364, f. 2A-E, G-H (mf)

Ajmonia marakata (Sherriffs, 1927) | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022361

Dictyna marakata Sherriffs, 1927: 536, f. 1-2 (Dmf) Original description

Dictyna tungabhadrai Tikader, 1966d: 50, f. 5a-b (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061249]

Dictynomorpha marakata Lehtinen, 1967: 230 (T from Dictyna, S of Dictyna tungabhadrai)

Ajmonia marakata Marusik, Esyunin & Tuneva, 2015: 130 (T from Dictynomorpha)

Ajmonia numidica (Denis, 1937) | | Algeria urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022050

Dictyna numidica Denis, 1937b: 1032, pl. 1, f. 1d-e (Dm) Original description

Heterodictyna numicida Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 47 (T from Dictyna)

Ajmonia numidica Lehtinen, 1967: 210, f. 312, 316 (m, T from Heterodictyna = Nigma, Nigma in legend)

Ajmonia patellaris (Simon, 1911) | | Algeria urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022051

Dictyna patellaris Simon, 1911b: 281, f. 3 (Dm) Original description

Heterodictyna patellaris Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 47 (T from Dictyna)

Ajmonia patellaris Lehtinen, 1967: 210 (T from Heterodictyna = Nigma)

Ajmonia procera (Kulczyński, 1901) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022052

Dictyna procera Kulczyński, 1901b: 322 (Df) Original description

Ajmonia procera Lehtinen, 1967: 210 (T from Dictyna)

Ajmonia psittacea (Schenkel, 1936) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022053

Dictyna psittacea Schenkel, 1936b: 20, f. 4 (Dm) Original description

Ajmonia psittacea Lehtinen, 1967: 210 (T from Dictyna)

Ajmonia psittacea Marusik & Esyunin, 2010: 364, f. 3A-C (m)

Ajmonia rajaeii Zamani & Marusik, 2017 | | Iran urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049739

Ajmonia rajaeii Zamani & Marusik, 2017: 321, f. 2a-c, 3a-h (Dmf) Original description

Ajmonia smaragdula (Simon, 1905) | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022362

Dictyna smaragdula Simon, 1905a: 166, f. 2 (Dmf) Original description

Dictynomorpha smaragdula Lehtinen, 1967: 230 (T from Dictyna)

Ajmonia smaragdula Marusik, Esyunin & Tuneva, 2015: 130, f. 14-15 (m, T from Dictynomorpha)

Ajmonia velifera (Simon, 1906) | | India to China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022054

Dictyna velifera Simon, 1906b: 304 (Dmf) Original description

Ajmonia patellaris Caporiacco, 1934a: 125, pl. 1, f. 7 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058979]

Dictyna yunnanensis Schenkel, 1963: 24, f. 7 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058980]

Ajmonia velifera Lehtinen, 1967: 210, f. 332 (m, T from Dictyna, S of Ajmonia patellaris and Dictyna yunnanensis)