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

Nopalityna uintana (Chamberlin, 1919)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022437

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Described:

Distribution: USA

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Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f (IZ15154) - (Montana et al., 2025)

Taxonomic References

Dictyna uintana Chamberlin, 1919a: 240, pl. 14, f. 3-5 (Dmf) Original description

Dictyna uintana Gertsch, 1946a: 13, f. 23

Dictyna socarnia Chamberlin, 1948: 8, pl. 1, f. 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059104]

Dictyna uintana Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 118, pl. 35, f. 12-16 (mf, S of Dictyna socarnia)

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

References

Chamberlin, R. V. (1919a). New western spiders. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 12(3): 239-260, pl. 14-19. doi: 10.1093/aesa/12.3.239 -- Show included taxa

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

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

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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 Emblyna to Nopalityna