World Spider Catalog

Argyronetidae Thorell, 1869

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: the family is separated from the Dictynidae and re-definded by Montana et al., 2025: 9 to 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.

Gen. Arctella Holm, 1945 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01962

type Arctella lapponica Holm, 1945; gender feminine

N.B.: transferred from the Dictynidae to the Argyronetidae by Montana et al., 2025: 43; removed from the synonymy of Tricholathys Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 by Lehtinen, 1967: 215 (contra Holm, 1960b: 131).

Transferred to other genera:

Arctella subnivalis Ovtchinnikov, 1989 -- see Tricholathys

Arctella lapponica Holm, 1945 | | Scandinavia, Russia (Europe to Far East), Mongolia, Alaska, Canada urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022081 TYPE SPECIES

Arctella lapponica Holm, 1945b: 71, f. 23 (Dmf) Original description

Arctella lapponica Lehtinen, 1967: 215, f. 285 (f, T from Tricholathys)

Arctella lapponica Palmgren, 1977a: 23, f. 5.9-12 (mf)

Arctella lapponica Ovtchinnikov, 1989: 92, f. 2a-b (m)

Arctella lapponica Danilov, 1994: 201, f. 6 (f)

Arctella lapponica Almquist, 2007: 302, f. 265a-f (mf)

Arctella lapponica Marusik, Omelko & Ponomarev, 2017: 249, f. 1A-B, 2A-B, 3A-J, 4A-C, 6A-F (mf)

Arctella lapponica Crews et al., 2020: 910, f. 18D-F,K, S8A-H (mf)

Arctella lapponica Montana et al., 2025: 32, f. 24A (m)