Archaeodictyna

Archaeodictyna
Archaeodictyna ammophila
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Dictynidae
Genus:	Archaeodictyna Caporiacco, 1928 [1]
Type species
A. anguiniceps (Simon, 1899)
Species
9, see text

Archaeodictyna is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1928. ^[2]

Species

As of September 2025 ^[update] it contains 13 species: ^[1] Archaeodictyna aguasverdes (Wunderlich, 2022) | m f | Canary Is.

• Archaeodictyna ammophila (Menge, 1871) – Europe to Central Asia
• Archaeodictyna anguiniceps (Simon, 1899) (type) – North, East Africa
• Archaeodictyna bispinosa (Simon, 1906) – Myanmar
• 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 fuerteventurensis (Schmidt, 1976) – Canary Is.
• Archaeodictyna lanzarotensis (Wunderlich, 2022) – Canary Is.
• Archaeodictyna longichela Zamani & Marusik, 2025 – Iran
• 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

References

1. "Gen. Archaeodictyna Caporiacco, 1928". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-09-22.
2. Caporiacco, L. di (1928). "Aracnidi di Giarabub e di Porto Bardia (Tripolis)". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 53: 77–107.