Arethyna volucripes (Keyserling, 1881)

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Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA, Mexico

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Taxonomic References
Dictyna volucripes Keyserling, 1881c: 286, pl. 11, f. 11 (Df) Original description
Dictyna volucripes Emerton, 1888: 446, pl. 9, f. 2, pl. 11, f. 3 (f, Dm)
Dictyna volucripes Emerton, 1902: 210, f. 484-485 (mf)
Dictyna volucripes Comstock, 1912: 284, f. 267, 269-270
Dictyna volucripes Comstock, 1940: 285, f. 267-268 (mf)
Dictyna volucripes Jones, 1947: 21, f. 53-56 (m)
Dictyna volucripes Kaston, 1948: 505, f. 1904-1905, 1942-1946, 2075, 2143-2144 (mf)
Dictyna volucripes Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 87, pl. 26, f. 1-3 (mf)
Dictyna volucripes Breene et al., 1993: 54, f. 16A-B (mf)
Dictyna volucripes Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 68, f. 569-571 (mf)
Arethyna volucripes Montana et al., 2025: 82, f. 66E-F (m, T from Dictyna)
References

Breene, R. G., Dean, D. A., Nyffeler, M. & Edwards, G. B. (1993). Biology, Predation Ecology, and Significance of Spiders in Texas Cotton Ecosystems with a Key to Species. Texas Agriculture Experiment Station College Station, 115 pp. -- 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

Comstock, J. H. (1912). The spider book. A manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, harvestmen and other members of the class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico, with analytical keys for their classification and popular accounts of their habits. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City/New York, 721 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.3163 -- Show included taxa

Comstock, J. H. (1940). The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press Ithaca, 727 pp. -- 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

Emerton, J. H. (1902). The common spiders of the United States. Ginn & Company Publ., Boston & London, 225 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.5617 -- 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

Keyserling, E. (1881c). Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. III. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 31: 269-314, pl. 11. -- 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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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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