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Emblyna
Mesh Web Weavers - Emblyna species, Leesylvania State Park, Woodbridge, Virginia.jpg
Emblyna sp. from Leesylvania State Park, Woodbridge, Virginia. Note sexual dimorphism. The male (right) is courting the female (left).
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Dictynidae
Genus: Emblyna
Chamberlin, 1948 [1]
Type species
E. completa
(Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1929)
Species

76, see text

Emblyna is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by R. V. Chamberlin in 1948. [2]

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Species

As of May 2019 it contains seventy-six species: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Emblyna Chamberlin, 1948". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  2. Chamberlin, R. V. (1948). "The genera of North American Dictynidae". Bulletin of the University of Utah. 38 (15): 1–31.