Eriena minuta (Emerton, 1888)

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Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA

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Taxonomic References
Dictyna minuta Emerton, 1888: 447, pl. 9, f. 5 (Dmf) Original description
Dictyna minuta Jones, 1947: 18, f. 47 (f)
Dictyna minuta Kaston, 1948: 510, f. 1898-1899, 1938-1939 (mf)
Dictyna minuta Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 73, pl. 19, f. 4-7 (mf)
Dictyna minuta Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 68, f. 566-568 (mf)
Eriena minuta Montana et al., 2025: 86 (T from Dictyna)
References

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. (1888). New England spiders of the family Ciniflonidae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 7: 443-458. -- Show included taxa

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

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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 Eriena

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