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Dictynidae  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 / Shikibutyna  Cala-Riquelme, Gorneau & Esposito, 2025   3 species

Shikibutyna mongolica (Marusik & Koponen, 1998)

Description
Male

Prosoma brown, with light brown median stripe from ocular area to median groove Legs yellow-brown, with indistinct annulations. Opisthosoma with whitish pattern.

Body length male: 1.60-1.88 mm
Female

Prosoma dark brown, prosoma length: 0.8 mm. Legs yellow, with dark rings in apical parts of segments, femora and tibiae also with rings in middle part.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Mongolia
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Russia, Eastern   (Mikhailov, 2013) |||
References

Danilov S N (2000) New data on the spiders of the family Dictynidae (Araneae) from Siberia. Ekológia (Bratislava) 19, Suppl. 3: 37-44 pdf

Marusik Y M, Koponen S (1998) New and little known spiders of the subfamily Dictyninae (Araneae: Dictynidae) from south Siberia. Entomological Problems 29: 79-86 pdf

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
09-07-2025 Distribution update Detail
25-09-2014 Datasheet update Detail
25-09-2014 Image insert