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Genus: Emblyna Chamberlin, 1948 | Family: Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871

Emblyna cavata (Jones, 1947)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022264

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Described:

Distribution: USA, Cuba

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Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m (IZ20740) - (Montana et al., 2025)

Taxonomic References

Dictyna cavata Jones, 1947: 17, f. 42-46 (Dmf) Original description

Emblyna cavata Montana et al., 2025: 86 (T from Dictyna)

References

Jones, S. (1947). Descriptions of some species of the spider genus Dictyna. Field and Laboratory 15: 1-35. -- 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

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-07-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Montana et al., 2025
2025-07-07	Species transferred to new genus	Montana et al., 2025		Species transferred from Dictyna to Emblyna