Saltonia incerta

Saltonia incerta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Dictynidae
Genus:	Saltonia Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942
Species:	S. incerta
Binomial name
Saltonia incerta (Banks, 1898)
Synonyms
Cybaeodes incerta Saltonia imperialis

Saltonia incerta is a rare spider species, only known from California, USA, where it occurs on the shores of the Salton Sea, and from a small island in the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortes). All of the few collected specimens were collected during March and April near salt springs, salt water of salt marshes, making an intertidal habitat likely. Its colulus is similar to that of two genera of intertidal zone spiders of the family Desidae, Paratheuma and Desis.

Before it was placed into the family Dictynidae by Lehtinen in 1967, it was grouped under the family Agelenidae. Before that, it was at times considered to belong to the Clubionidae, thus living up to its species name incerta which is Latin for "uncertain".

References

• Banks, N. (1898). Some new spiders. Canad. Ent. 30:185-188.
• Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. (1942). A hundred new species of American spiders. Bull. Univ. Utah 32(13):1-117.
• Lehtinen, P.T. (1967). Classification of the Cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Ann. Zool. Fennici 4:199-467
• Roth, V.D. & Brown W.L. (1975). Comments on the spider Saltonia incerta Banks (Agelenidae?). J. Arachnol. 3:53-56. PDF