''Archaeodictyna'' is a
genus
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of
cribellate
Cribellum literally means "little sieve", and in biology the term generally applies to anatomical structures in the form of tiny perforated plates.
In certain groups of diatoms it refers to microscopically punctured regions of the frustule, or ...
araneomorph
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spiders in the family
Dictynidae
Dictynidae is a family of cribellate, hackled band-producing spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1871. Most build irregular webs on or near the ground, creating a tangle of silken fibers among several branches or stems of on ...
, and was first described by
Lodovico di Caporiacco
Ludovico di Caporiacco (22 January 1900, in Udine – 18 July 1951, in Parma) was an Italian arachnologist.
Caporiacco took part in an expedition to the Jebel Uweinat, a mountain massif in the boundary region of Sudan, Libya, and Egypt. On the ...
in 1928.
Species
it contains nine species:
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Archaeodictyna ammophila''
( Menge, 1871) – Europe to Central Asia
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Archaeodictyna anguiniceps''
(Simon, 1899) (
type
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) – North, East Africa
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Archaeodictyna condocta''
( O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) – North Africa, Kazakhstan
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Archaeodictyna consecuta''
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Central Asia, China
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Archaeodictyna minutissima''
(Miller, 1958) – Italy, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia (Europe)
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Archaeodictyna sexnotata''
(Simon, 1890) – Yemen
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Archaeodictyna suedicola''
(Simon, 1890) – Yemen
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Archaeodictyna tazzeiti''
(Denis, 1954) – Algeria
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Archaeodictyna ulova''
Griswold & Meikle-Griswold, 1987 – South Africa
References
Araneomorphae genera
Dictynidae
Spiders of Africa
Spiders of Asia
Spiders of Europe
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