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Genus: Arangina Lehtinen, 1967 | Family: Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871

Arangina cornigera (Dalmas, 1917)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022070

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Described:

Distribution: New Zealand

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Taxonomic References

Dictyna cornigera Dalmas, 1917a: 336, f. 9-12 (Dmf) Original description

Dictyna nigella Dalmas, 1917a: 338, f. 13 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064847]

Dictyna cornigera Marples, 1959b: 356, f. III.7, 11 (mf)

Arangina cornigera Lehtinen, 1967: 215, f. 328 (m, T from Dictyna)

Arangina cornigera Forster, 1970b: 130, f. 22, 357, 362-370 (mf, S of Dictyna nigella [removed from S of Dictyna decolor Urquhart = Dictyna urquharti, rejecting Chamberlain, 1946: 92])

Arangina cornigera Montana et al., 2025: 51, f. 43A-F, 44A-F (mf)

References

Dalmas, R. de (1917a). Araignées de Nouvelle-Zélande. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 86: 317-430. -- Show included taxa

Forster, R. R. (1970b). The spiders of New Zealand. Part III. Otago Museum Bulletin 3: 1-184. -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [[second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)]] -- Show included taxa

Marples, R. R. (1959b). The dictynid spiders of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 87: 333-361. -- 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