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Tivyna

genus of arachnids

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ3529968 ↗
Source-derived summary

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

Species

As of May 2019 it contains four species:

Tivyna moaba (Ivie, 1947) – USA

Tivyna pallida (Keyserling, 1887) (type) – USA

Tivyna petrunkevitchi (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940) – USA

Tivyna spatula (Gertsch & Davis, 1937) – USA, Mexico, Cuba, Bahama Is.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tivyna” is genus of arachnids. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tivyna, genus and arachnids, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948, 2019, 1947, 1887—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Tivyna, genus and arachnids is the immediate research focus.
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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3529968. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1948, 2019, 1947 and 1887.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tivyna” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.