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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 .
Misumena vatia belongs to the family Thomisidae, or spiders known as crab spiders. The family includes more than 2,000 species, which are found all over the world. [3] The genus Misumena includes many other species which are found worldwide. [4] Misumena vatia falls into the Thomisus clade. Other clades in the family Thomisidae include the ...
Dolomedidae is a family of spiders comprising seven genera formerly part of the family Pisauridae. It includes the genus Dolomedes , known commonly as raft spiders, and its close relatives. Taxonomy
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]
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 ]
T. onustus are members of the genus Thomisus, which includes around 150 described species, and is well supported as being monophyletic.It is relatively morphologically homogeneous genus, with synapomorphies that include circular scopula hairs (when viewed as a cross section), bulbuses that are subequal in length and width, disk shaped tegulums, sperm ducts that follow a circular peripheral ...
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]
Cyatholipidae is a family of spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1894. [1] Most live in moist montane forest, though several species, including Scharffia rossi, live in dry savannah regions. They occur in Africa, including Madagascar, [2] New Zealand and Australia, and one species (Pokennips dentipes) in Jamaica. [3]