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Dictynidae  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 / Simziella  Cala-Riquelme & Alequín, 2025   4 species

Simziella palmgreni (Marusik & Fritzén, 2011)

Description
Male

Prosoma braun, cephalic area raised. Opisthosoma light to dark brown.

Body length male: 2.6-3.0 mm
Female

Prosoma brown with dark grey radial stripes and light brown median band. Opisthosoma: dorsum light brown with brown pattern, cardiac mark usually posteriorly distinctly trifid, venter with dark median band.

Body length female: 2.9-3.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Finland, Russia (Europe to north-eastern Siberia)
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Norway   (Farlund, 2019) ||| Russia, Northern   (Marusik & Fritzén, 2011) |||
References

Farlund M (2019) Norwegian Spiders - Norske edderkopper. Siste oppdatering for funn av nye arter 10. oktober, 2019. Online at http://crocea.wordpress.com/norsk-artsliste/ pdf

Fjellberg A (unpubl.) .

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Marusik Y M, Fritzén N R (2011) On a new Dictyna species (Araneae, Dictynidae) from the northern Palaearctic confused with the east Siberian D. schmidti Kulczyński, 1926. ZooKeys 138: 93-108 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
09-07-2025 Distribution update Detail
08-08-2021 Image insert
23-12-2019 Image insert
26-02-2014 Distribution update Detail