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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]
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.
Migidae, also known as tree trapdoor spiders, is a family of spiders with about 100 species in eleven genera. They are small to large spiders with little to no hair and build burrows with a trapdoor. [ 1 ]
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]
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 .
Most of the species within this group have six eyes, as opposed to most other spiders. Spiders in the genus Tetrablemma (Tetrablemmidae) have only four eyes, as do some members of the family Caponiidae; caponiids may even have only two eyes. However, spiders in the family Plectreuridae have the normal eight eyes. [1]
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. [4]
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 ]