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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.
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 .
The Thomisidae are a family of spiders, including about 170 genera and over 2,100 species. The common name crab spider is often linked to species in this family, but is also applied loosely to many other families of spiders. Many members of this family are also known as flower spiders or flower crab spiders. [3]
Corleone family, The Godfather "The specific name is a patronym for the Corleone family depicted in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather and the trilogy of films directed by Francis Ford Coppola." [186] Hyorhinomys stuempkei Esselstyn et al., 2015: True mouse: Harald Stümpke, The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades
Archaeidae, also known as assassin spiders and pelican spiders, is a spider family with about ninety described species in five genera. [1] It contains small spiders, ranging from 2 to 8 millimetres (0.079 to 0.315 in) long, that prey exclusively on other spiders. [ 2 ]
The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders" [1]) are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (tarantulas and their close kin), where they point straight down.
Pimoidae is a small family of araneomorph spiders first described by Jörg Wunderlich in 1986. [2] As re-circumscribed in 2021, it is monophyletic, [1] and contained 86 species in two genera. [3] It is closely related to the Linyphiidae, [1] [4] and is sometimes treated as synonymous with that family. [5]
Miturgidae is a family of araneomorph spiders that includes nearly 170 species in 29 genera worldwide. [1] First described by Eugène Simon in 1886, [2] it has been substantially revised, and includes the previous family Zoridae as a synonym, [3] and excludes the family Xenoctenidae. [4]