Simziella sancta (Gertsch, 1946)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022321

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Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA

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Taxonomic References
Dictyna sancta Gertsch, 1946a: 13, f. 21-22 (Dmf) Original description
Dictyna alias Chamberlin, 1948: 7, pl. 1, f. 7, pl. 6, f. 67 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065409]
Emblyna religens Chamberlin, 1948: 11, pl. 6, f. 64 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065410]
Dictyna alias Levi & Field, 1954: 464, f. 110-111 (m)
Dictyna sancta Gertsch in Roewer, 1955c: 1324 (S of Dictyna alias and Emblyna religens)
Dictyna sancta Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 86, pl. 22, f. 8-9, pl. 24, f. 1 (mf, S of Dictyna alias and Emblyna religens confirmed)
Simziella sancta Montana et al., 2025: 90 (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. (1946a). Notes on American spiders of the family Dictynidae. American Museum Novitates 1319: 1-21. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. & Field, H. M. (1954). The spiders of Wisconsin. American Midland Naturalist 51: 440-467. -- 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 Simziella

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