Arethyna personata (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022312

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Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA, Mexico

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Taxonomic References
Dictyna personata Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936a: 9, f. 3 (Df) Original description
Dictyna personata Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940: 329, f. 20-21 (Dm)
Tosyna pior Chamberlin, 1948: 16 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065368]
Dictyna personata Gertsch in Roewer, 1955c: 1323 (S of Tosyna pior)
Dictyna personata Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 95, pl. 28, f. 1-4, 10 (mf, S of Tosyna pior confirmed)
Arethyna personata Montana et al., 2025: 83 (T from Dictyna)
References

Chamberlin, R. V. (1948). The genera of North American Dictynidae. Bulletin of the University of Utah 38(15): 1-31. -- 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

Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S. (1936a). Diagnoses of new southern spiders. American Museum Novitates 851: 1-21. -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S. (1940). The spiders of Texas. I. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 77: 307-340. -- 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

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- 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 Arethyna

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