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Genus: Nopalityna Cala-Riquelme & Esposito, 2025 | Family: Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871

Nopalityna jonesae (Roewer, 1955)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022397

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Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA

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Taxonomic References

Dictyna montana Jones, 1948: 37, f. 18-20 (Dm; preoccupied by Tullgren, 1910, see Archaeodictyna condocta) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059077]

Dictyna jonesae Roewer, 1955c: 1322 (replacement name) Original description

Dictyna jonesae Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 123, pl. 37, f. 10-13 (m)

Nopalityna jonesae Montana et al., 2025: 88 (T from Emblyna)

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

Jones, S. E. (1948). The species of Dictyna in the Exline collection. Field and Laboratory (Dallas) 16: 29-44. -- 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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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 Emblyna to Nopalityna