Phantyna formidolosa (Gertsch & Ivie, 1936)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022280

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Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA

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  • Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1m (IZ20351) - (Montana et al., 2025)
Taxonomic References
Dictyna armata Banks, 1911: 444, pl. 34, f. 9 (Dmf; preoccupied by Thorell, 1875, see Tolkienus armatus) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065367]
Dictyna armata Emerton, 1915a: 141 (3, f. in text)
Dictyna formidolosa Gertsch & Ivie, 1936: 10 (replacement name) Original description
Dictyna formidolosa Kaston, 1948: 511, f. 1907-1908 (mf)
Dictyna formidolosa Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 66, pl. 16, f. 8-10, pl. 17, f. 12 (mf)
Phantyna formidolosa Montana et al., 2025: 82 (T from Dictyna)
References

Banks, N. (1911). Some Arachnida from North Carolina. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 63: 440-456. -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. & Gertsch, W. J. (1958). The spider family Dictynidae in America north of Mexico. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 116: 1-152. [[second pdf contains better scans of the plates]] -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1915a). New spiders from New England, XI. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 20: 133-144. -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. & Ivie, W. (1936). Descriptions of new American spiders. American Museum Novitates 858: 1-25. -- Show included taxa

Kaston, B. J. (1948). Spiders of Connecticut. Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874. -- 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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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 Phantyna

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