World Spider Catalog

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. Anaxibia Thorell, 1898 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01959

type Anaxibia caudiculata Thorell, 1898; gender feminine

Anaxibia caudiculata Thorell, 1898 | | Myanmar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022064 TYPE SPECIES

Anaxibia caudiculata Thorell, 1898: 272 (Df) Original description

Anaxibia difficilis (Kraus, 1960) | | São Tomé and Príncipe urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022065

Mallos difficilis Kraus, 1960: 98, f. 13-15 (Dm) Original description

Anaxibia difficilis Lehtinen, 1967: 213 (T from Mallos)

Anaxibia folia Sankaran & Sebastian, 2017 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049799

Anaxibia folia Sankaran & Sebastian, 2017b: 441, f. 1A-F, 2A-F (Dmf) Original description

Anaxibia nigricauda (Simon, 1905) | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022066

Dictyna nigricauda Simon, 1905a: 165, f. 1 (Dmf) Original description

Anaxibia nigricauda Lehtinen, 1967: 213 (T from Dictyna)

Anaxibia peteri (Lessert, 1933) | | Angola urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022067

Dictyna peteri Lessert, 1933: 89, f. 2-4 (Dmf) Original description

Anaxibia peteri Lehtinen, 1967: 213, f. 303 (f, T from Dictyna)

Anaxibia pictithorax (Kulczyński, 1908) | | Indonesia (Java) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022068

Dictyna pictithorax Kulczyński, 1908d: 575, pl. 23, f. 27-29 (Dmf) Original description

Anaxibia pictithorax Lehtinen, 1967: 213, f. 327 (m, T from Dictyna)

Anaxibia rebai (Tikader, 1966) | | India (mainland, Andaman Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022069

Dictyna rebai Tikader, 1966d: 45, f. 1a-b (Df; m f. 1c see Nigma shiprai) Original description

Anaxibia rebai Lehtinen, 1967: 213 (T from Dictyna)