Abstract
Emblyna Chamberlin 1948 is a fairly large Holarctic genus of dictynid spiders containing currently 75 nominal species (Platnick 2011). Most of the species (65) are known from the Nearctic Region. Although the genus was revised in the Nearctic (Chamberlin & Gertsch 1958) and several species were recently described from the West and East Palaearctic it remains poorly studied. Fourteen species are known from one sex only, either by males or by females. The internal structures of the epigyne are known only for some Palaearctic species. According to Lehtinen (1967) Emblyna differs from the related genus Dictyna Sundevall 1833 by having 2–3 metatarsal trichobothria (1 in Dictyna), a modified embolus in the male palp (simple in Dictyna) and a complex vulva in the female.
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