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Genus: Archaeodictyna Caporiacco, 1928 | Family: Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871

Archaeodictyna anguiniceps (Simon, 1899)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022073

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Described:

Distribution: Tunisia, Libya, Egypt

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Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 1m 1f (1635121) - (Montana et al., 2025)
Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy 1m 1f (158) of Dictyna cyrenaica - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)

Taxonomic References

Dictyna anguiniceps Simon, 1899e: 244, f. 1-3 (Dmf) Original description

Dictyna anguiniceps Simon, 1903a: 974, f. 1112

Archaeodictyna anguiniceps Caporiacco, 1928b: 79

Archaeodictyna anguiniceps Lehtinen, 1967: 215, f. 295 (f, S of Dictyna cyrenaica, revalidated by Mertens & Jocqué, 1982: 251)

Archaeodictyna anguiniceps Mertens & Jocqué, 1982: 251, f. 2-8 (mf)

Archaeodictyna anguiniceps Montana et al., 2025: 53, f. 45A-F, 46A-D (mf)

References

Caporiacco, L. di (1928b). Resultati zoologici della Missione inviata dalla R. Società Geografica Italiana per l'esplorazione dell'oasi di Giarabub (1926-1927). Aracnidi di Giarabub e di Porto Bardia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 53: 77-107. -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [[second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)]] -- Show included taxa

Mertens, J. & Jocqué, R. (1982). Redescription of Archaeodictyna anguiniceps (Simon) 1899, a remarkable deserticolous spider. Bulletin & Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 118: 249-256. -- 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. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf007 [[2nd pdf contains the Suppl. Figs 1-5]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1899e). Arachnides recueillis par M. C. J. Dewitz en 1898, à Bir-Hooker (Wadi Natron), en Egypte. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 4(13): 244-247. doi: 10.3406/bsef.1899.22402 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1903a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 669-1080. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-07-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Montana et al., 2025
2024-01-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Dictyna cyrenaica (Caporiacco, 1933)