Spider taxonomic changes
Summary: Taxonomic changes affecting 8 species in the Dictynidae family have been made to the Hungarian species list.
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The species Altella hungarica, Altella orientalis, Argenna patula, Argenna subnigra and Argyroneta aquatica have been moved from the Dictynidae family to a newly created Argyronetidae family.
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The species Dictyna szaboi has been moved to a newly created genus, its new name is Shikibutyna szaboi.
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The species Lathys humilis and Lathys stigmatisata have been moved from the Dictynidae family to a newly created Lathyidae family.
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The species Lathys stigmatisata has been moved to a newly created genus, its new name is Tolokonniella stigmatisata.
Source: 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.
Affected species:
- phylum: Arthropoda
- order: Araneae
- family: Argyronetidae
- genus: Altella
- species: Altella hungarica
- phylum: Arthropoda
- order: Araneae
- family: Argyronetidae
- genus: Altella
- species: Altella orientalis
- phylum: Arthropoda
- order: Araneae
- family: Argyronetidae
- genus: Argenna
- species: Argenna patula
- phylum: Arthropoda
- order: Araneae
- family: Argyronetidae
- genus: Argenna
- species: Argenna subnigra
- phylum: Arthropoda
- order: Araneae
- family: Argyronetidae
- genus: Argyroneta
- species: Argyroneta aquatica
- phylum: Arthropoda
- order: Araneae
- family: Dictynidae
- genus: Shikibutyna
- species: Shikibutyna szaboi
- phylum: Arthropoda
- order: Araneae
- family: Lathyidae
- genus: Lathys
- species: Lathys humilis
- phylum: Arthropoda
- order: Araneae
- family: Lathyidae
- genus: Tolokonniella
- species: Tolokonniella stigmatisata