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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.
Anapidae is a family of rather small spiders with 233 described extant species in 59 genera. [1] It includes the former family Micropholcommatidae as the subfamily Micropholcommatinae, [2] and the former family Holarchaeidae. Most species are less than 2 millimetres (0.079 in) long. [3] They generally live in leaf litter and moss on the floor ...
Moving the type genus to a different family meant that a new family name was needed for the remaining members. Griswold and Polotow proposed "Udubidae", with the type genus Uduba. [1] As of November 2015, the World Spider Catalog accepted this family. [4] A summary phylogeny is shown below. [1]
Phrurolithidae is a family of araneomorph spiders, known as guardstone spiders. The family was first described by Nathan Banks in 1892. [ 1 ] First included in the Corinnidae as the subfamily Phrurolithinae, later phylogenetic studies justified a separate family.
4 genera, 39 species Pacullidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1894. [ 1 ] It was merged into Tetrablemmidae in 1958, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] then raised back to family status after a large phylogenetic study in 2017.
Palpimanidae, also known as palp-footed spiders, is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1890. [1] They are widely distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, the Mediterranean and one in Uzbekistan, but not Australia. They are not common and there is a high degree of endemism. [2]
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Cybaeidae is a family of spiders first described by Nathan Banks in 1892. [1] The diving bell spider or water spider Argyroneta aquatica was previously included in this family, but is now in the family Dictynidae. [2] [3]