| Dictynidae Temporal range:
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| Lathys insulana, male | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 |
| Diversity | |
| 52 genera, 566 species | |
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Dictynidae is a family of cribellate, hackled band-producing spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1871.[1] Most build irregular webs on or near the ground, creating a tangle of silken fibers among several branches or stems of one plant.[2]
The genus Argyroneta has been placed in a separate family Argyronetidae, but the family is not accepted by the World Spider Catalog and the genus is included in the Dictynidae.[3]
- ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1871). "Arachnida". The Zoological Record. 7: 207–224.
- ^ Roth, V.D.; Brown, W.L. (1975). "Comments on the spider Saltonia incerta Banks (Agelenidae?)" (PDF). J. Arachnol. 3: 53–56. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-05. Retrieved 2006-08-06.
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