Archaeodictyna montana, , Esposito, 2025

Montana, Katherine O., Cala-Riquelme, Franklyn, Crews, Sarah C., Gorneau, Jacob A., Al-Jamal, Amin M., Alequín, Luigie D., Spagna, Joseph C., Ballarin, Francesco & Esposito, Lauren A., 2025, Tailor’s drawer no more: a reappraisal of the spider family Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 sensu lato, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204 (2) : -

Genus Andronova Cala-Riquelme , Montana, Esposito gen. n.

Type species: Lathys alberta Gertsch, 1946 .

Type material: Lathys alberta : Canada, Laggan (publication: Rocky Mts., near Laggan), pre-1894 publication date ,

Coll. J.H. Bean (J.H. Emerton Coll.), (Syntype, 1 male, MCZ-IZ22474 ) .

Material examined: Lathys annulata Bösenberg and Strand 1906 : Japan, Tokyo Pref., Hachijo-jima Is., Hachijo city, Okago , on arboreal vegetation, 33°06'11.3"N 139°47'58.7"E, 03.v.2021, Coll. F. Ballarin (1 male, FBPC). Lathys arabs Simon, 1910 : Algeria, ‘ Ain Ograb , Djebel Messaad (Syntype, 2 females, MNHN-AR-AR403) . Tunisia, Nefzaoua , Coll. Vibert (Syntype, 2 females, MNHN-AR-AR420) . Lathys cambridgei (Simon, 1874) : Syria, Coll. C.B. (Holotype, 1 female, MNHN-AR-AR401) . Lathys dihamata Paik, 1979 : Japan, Shizuoka Pref., Tagata Distr., Izu city (former Amagiyugashima ), Ichiyama , 2.vi.1984, Coll. K. Kamada (1 female, NMST17797 ) . Lathys sylvania : USA, Florida, Edgewater , 18.ii.1939, Coll. Charles A. Frost (Paratype, 1 female, MCZ-IZ24837 ) . USA, Florida, Dunedin , iii.1927, Coll. Willis S. Blatchley (Paratype, 5 females, MCZ-IZ24838 ) .

Etymology: The generic name refers to the Andronovo, a collection of late Bronze Age cultures (c. 2000–1150 BC) from Central Asia; gender feminine.

Diagnosis: The male of Andronova gen. n. can be distinguished from other Lathyidae genera by having narrower AME than ALE (AME absent in Scotolathys s.s., Bannaella , and Afrolathys gen. n.) embolus usually coiled 1080° or less, and usually with a medial retrolateral origin ( Marusik et al. 2006b: figs 13–15, 17–18, 20–21); the palpal patella without an apophysis ( Marusik et al. 2006b: fig. 17) (palpal patellar apophysis present in Lathys s.s.); palpal tibia with lamellate lateral apophysis with deep or shallow longitudinal furrow ( Marusik et al. 2006b: figs 10–12, 16A–C) in addition to an RTA and hook-shaped tibial process (lamellate lateral apophysis absent in Lathys s.s., Scotolathys s.s., Bannaella , and Afrolathys gen. n.). Females ( Marusik et al. 2006b: figs 22, 23) can be distinguished by the reduced SS/AG, copulatory duct elongated and coiled more than 720° around itself, and 520° around the primary spermathecae; the fertilization duct located mesal distally between the copulatory duct and primary spermathecae.

List of included species: Andronova alberta (Gertsch, 1946) comb. n., A. annulata (Bösenberg and Strand, 1906) comb. n., A. arabs (Simon, 1910) comb. n., A. cambridgei (Simon, 1874) comb. n., A. dihamata (Paik, 1979) comb. n., A. lehtineni (Kovblyuk et al., 2014) comb. n., A. maculosa (Karsch, 1879) comb. n., A. spasskyi (Andreeva and Tystshenko, 1969) comb. n., A. subalberta (Z.S. Zhang, Hu, Y.G. Zhang, 2012) comb. n., A. subviridis (Denis, 1937) comb. n., and A. sylvania ( Chamberlin and Gertsch, 1958) comb. n.