Archaeodictyna Explained

Archaeodictyna is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1928.^[1]

Species

it contains nine species:^[2]

• Archaeodictyna ammophila (Menge, 1871) – Europe to Central Asia
• Archaeodictyna anguiniceps (Simon, 1899) (type) – North, East Africa
• Archaeodictyna condocta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) – North Africa, Kazakhstan
• Archaeodictyna consecuta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Central Asia, China
• Archaeodictyna minutissima (Miller, 1958) – Italy, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia (Europe)
• Archaeodictyna sexnotata (Simon, 1890) – Yemen
• Archaeodictyna suedicola (Simon, 1890) – Yemen
• Archaeodictyna tazzeiti (Denis, 1954) – Algeria
• Archaeodictyna ulova Griswold & Meikle-Griswold, 1987 – South Africa

Notes and References

1. Caporiacco. L. di. 1928. Aracnidi di Giarabub e di Porto Bardia (Tripolis).. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 77–107. 53.
2. Gen. Archaeodictyna Caporiacco, 1928. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-01. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.