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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] However, there are likely many species that have escaped the human eye as well as specimens ...
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, [ 2 ] and spinnerets that extrude silk. [ 3 ] They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all orders of organisms. [ 4 ][ 5 ] Spiders are found worldwide on every ...
Spiders have been evolving for at least 380 million years. The group's origins lie within an arachnid sub-group defined by the presence of book lungs (the tetrapulmonates); [1][2] the arachnids as a whole evolved from aquatic chelicerate ancestors. More than 45,000 extant species have been described, organised taxonomically in 3,958 genera and ...
600+ genera, 6000+ species. Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, [1] making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. [2] Jumping spiders have some of the best vision among arthropods and use it in ...
Theridiidae, also known as the tangle-web spiders, cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders, is a large family of araneomorph spiders first described by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833. [ 1 ] This diverse, globally distributed family includes over 3,000 species in 124 genera, [ 2 ] and is the most common arthropod found in human dwellings throughout ...
Nicodamidae is a family of araneomorph spiders with about thirty species in seven genera. [ 1 ] They are small to medium-sized spiders found near the ground of eucalypt forest in small sheet webs. The species of this family are only present in Australia and Papua New Guinea. In most cases the cephalothorax and legs are uniformly red and the ...
Araneomorphae. Family: Phyxelididae. Lehtinen, 1967. Diversity. 14 genera, 68 species. Phyxelididae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967 as a subfamily of Amaurobiidae, [1] and later elevated to family status as a sister group of Titanoecidae. [2]
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is now hosted at the Natural History Museum Bern; many species lists need to be updated to the latest version. For the sake of consistency, the spider section should adhere to the WSC wherever feasible. If you have a reason not to, please leave a note. Regional species lists List of common Australian spiders