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Paintings of Araneus angulatus from Svenska Spindlar of 1757, the first major work on spider taxonomy. Spider taxonomy is the part of taxonomy that is concerned with the science of naming, defining and classifying all spiders, members of the Araneae order of the arthropod class Arachnida, which has more than 48,500 described species. [1]
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of web pages in 2000, created by Norman I. Platnick of the American Museum of Natural History.
Ant-mimicking spiders also modify their behavior to resemble that of the target species of ant; for example, many adopt a zig-zag pattern of movement, ant-mimicking jumping spiders avoid jumping, and spiders of the genus Synemosyna walk on the outer edges of leaves in the same way as Pseudomyrmex. Ant mimicry in many spiders and other ...
Among the oldest known land arthropods are Trigonotarbids, members of an extinct order of spider-like arachnids. [5]Trigonotarbids share many superficial characteristics with spiders, including a terrestrial lifestyle, respiration through book lungs, and walking on eight legs, [6] with a pair of leg-like pedipalps near the mouth and mouth parts.
Order Amblypygi (Whip spiders) Order Araneae (Spiders) Order †Haptopoda; Order Palpigradi (Microwhip scorpions) Order †Uraraneida; Order Schizomida (Short-tailed whip scorpions) Order Pseudoscorpionida (Pseudoscorpions, or false scorpions) Order Scorpiones (True scorpions) Order Uropygi (Thelyphonida s.s., whip scorpions) Order ...
The Mesothelae are a suborder of spiders (order Araneae). As of April 2024, two extant families were accepted by the World Spider Catalog, Liphistiidae and Heptathelidae. Alternatively, the Heptathelidae can be treated as a subfamily of a more broadly circumscribed Liphistiidae. There are also a number of extinct families.
In 1999, the species Pellenes tauricus (Thorelli, 1875) was moved from being a synonym with Pellenes simoni to be a junior synonym with Pellenes nigrociliatus. [6] According to the World Spider Catalog, the species has also been described by the following species names: [1]
Ancylometes is a genus of Central and South American semiaquatic wandering spiders first described by Philipp Bertkau in 1880. [3] Originally placed with the nursery web spiders, it was moved to the Ctenidae in 1967. [4] The genus name is derived in part from Ancient Greek " ἀγκύλος" , meaning "crooked, bent".