Spagnius foliaceus (Hentz, 1850)

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Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA


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Taxonomic References
Theridion foliaceum Hentz, 1850: 277, pl. 9, f. 14 (Df; preoccupied by Nicolet, 1849, see Kochiura rosea; nomen protectum by Sherwood, Blick & Ballarin, 2025: 50) Original description
Theridion morologum Hentz, 1850: 277, pl. 9, f. 13 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065394]
Dictyna vittata Keyserling, 1884b: 663, pl. 21, f. 12 (Dmf; preoccupied by Keyserling, 1883, see Dictyna vittata) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065395]
Dictyna frondea Emerton, 1888: 449, pl. 9, f. 9 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065396]
Dictyna frondea Emerton, 1902: 208, f. 481 (mf)
Dictyna foliacea Petrunkevitch, 1911: 109
Dictyna foliacea Comstock, 1940: 285, f. 271 (f)
Dictyna foliacea Muma, 1943: 28, pl. XI, f. 4 (f)
Dictyna frondea Muma, 1943: 28, pl. 9, f. 3 (f)
Dictyna sublata Jones, 1947: 31, f. 78-81, 86 (mf; misidentified per Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 74, 128)
Dictyna foliacea Kaston, 1948: 507, f. 1951, 1972-1974 (mf, S of Dictyna frondea)
Dictyna foliacea Gertsch in Roewer, 1955c: 1321 (S of Dictyna vittata Keyserling, 1884 and Theridion morologum)
Dictyna foliacea Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 73, pl. 19, f. 8-13 (mf, S of Dictyna vittata Keyserling, 1884 and Theridion morologum confirmed)
Dictyna foliacea Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 68, f. 560-562 (mf)
Spagnius foliacea Montana et al., 2025: 90 (T from Dictyna)
Spagnius foliaceus Sherwood, Blick & Ballarin, 2025: 50 (nomen protectum)
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

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

Hentz, N. M. (1850). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 6(1, 2): 18-35, 271-295, pl. 3-4, 9-10. -- 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. (1884b). Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. V. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 33: 649-684, pl. 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

Muma, M. H. (1943). Common spiders of Maryland. Natural History Society of Maryland Baltimore, 179 pp. -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- 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

Sherwood, D., Blick, T. & Ballarin, F. (2025). Studies on spider nomenclature IV: additional dubious and unavailable nomina, status of genera with invalid type species, further synonymies, and emendations (Arachnida: Araneae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 47: 43-54. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2026-01-13 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood, Blick & Ballarin, 2025
2025-07-07 Species updated Old value Species epithet corrected
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 Spagnius

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