''Megadictyna'' is a genus of spiders in the family

Megadictynidae Megadictynidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967. They are endemic to New Zealand. Genera and species , the World Spider Catalog accepted two genera, each with a single species: *'' Forstertyna'' ...

. It was first described in 1906 by

Friedrich Dahl Karl Friedrich Theodor Dahl (June 24, 1856 in Rosenhofer Brök north of Dahme, Holstein – June 29, 1929 in Greifswald) was a German zoologist, and in particular an arachnologist. The son of a farmer, Dahl studied at the universities of Leipzi ...

. , it contains only one species, ''Megadictyna thilenii'', found in

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

. Similar to many

RTA clade The RTA clade is a clade of araneomorph spiders, united by the possession of a retrolateral tibial apophysis – a backward-facing projection on the tibia of the male pedipalp. The clade contains over 21,000 species, almost half the current total ...

spiders, ''Megadictyna'' build wheel-shaped orb webs.

References

Monotypic Araneomorphae genera Spiders of New Zealand Megadictynidae Taxa named by Friedrich Dahl {{Araneomorphae-stub