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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]
Other communal spiders include several Philoponella species (family Uloboridae), Agelena consociata (family Agelenidae) and Mallos gregalis (family Dictynidae). [78] Social predatory spiders need to defend their prey against kleptoparasites ("thieves"), and larger colonies are more successful in this. [ 79 ]
The Dysderoidea are a clade or superfamily of araneomorph spiders. The monophyly of the group, initially consisting of the four families Dysderidae, Oonopidae, Orsolobidae and Segestriidae, [2] has consistently been recovered in phylogenetic studies.
This category contains lists of spider species, one for each family. If a family is not listed here, check for the family page at Araneae families. The species are mostly taken from various versions of the World Spider Catalog
This page lists all described species of the spider family Archaeidae accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of January 2021: [1] A ...
Spiders of this genus present perhaps the most obvious case of sexual dimorphism among all of the orb-weaver family, with males being normally 1 ⁄ 3 to 1 ⁄ 4 the size of females. In A. diadematus , for example, last-molt females can reach the body size up to 1 in (2.5 cm), while most males seldom grow over 0.3 in (1 cm), both excluding leg ...
Nephilidae is a spider family commonly referred to as golden orb-weavers. [1] The various genera in the Nephilidae family were formerly placed in Tetragnathidae and Araneidae . All nephilid genera partially renew their webs.
Masteria petrunkevitchi eye pattern. The family Dipluridae, known as curtain-web spiders (or confusingly as funnel-web tarantulas, a name shared with other distantly related families [2]) are a group of spiders in the infraorder Mygalomorphae, that have two pairs of booklungs, and chelicerae (fangs) that move up and down in a stabbing motion.