Arethyna sierra (Chamberlin, 1948)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022324

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Described:

Distribution: USA, Mexico

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Taxonomic References
Dictyna sierra Chamberlin, 1948: 8, pl. 2, f. 13 (Dm) Original description
Dictyna sierra Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 96, pl. 28, f. 5-7 (m, Df)
Dictyna sierra Jiménez, Palacios-Cardiel & Chávez-Lara, 2020: 10, f. 11-12 (m)
Arethyna sierra 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

Jiménez, M. L., Palacios-Cardiel, C. & Chávez-Lara, I. D. (2020). Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Medanos of Samalayuca, Chihuahua and new records of species for Mexico. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n. s.) 36(e3612205): 1-23. doi: 10.21829/azm.2020.3612205 -- 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

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 Arethyna
2020-08-23 New taxonomic reference entry Jiménez, Palacios-Cardiel & Chávez-Lara, 2020
2020-08-23 Species distribution update Jiménez, Palacios-Cardiel & Chávez-Lara, 2020 Old value

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