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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Lists of spider species" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
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.
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 genera and species of the spider family Pycnothelidae. As of June 2020 [update] , the World Spider Catalog accepts 97 species in 6 genera: [ 1 ] A
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This page lists all described species of the spider family Austrochilidae accepted by the World Spider ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This page lists all described species of the spider family Ctenizidae accepted by the World Spider Catalog ...
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]
Now, however, it appears that non-orb spiders are a subgroup that evolved from orb-web spiders, and non-orb spiders have over 40% more species and are four times as abundant as orb-web spiders. Their greater success may be because sphecid wasps , which are often the dominant predators of spiders, much prefer to attack spiders that have flat webs.