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Micrathena, known as spiny orbweavers, is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833. [5] [6] Micrathena contains more than a hundred species, most of them Neotropical woodland-dwelling species. The name is derived from the Greek "micro", meaning "small", and the goddess Athena. [7]
It was restored to family level and redefined in 2025 based on a phylogenetic study of Pisauridae that found the family to be paraphyletic. [3] Morphologically, they differ from pisaurids in possessing a subterminal lateral apophysis below the fulcrum in males, and in females by possessing small, rounded accessory bulbs.
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 .
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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.
Amaurobiidae is a family of three-clawed cribellate or ecribellate spiders found in crevices and hollows or under stones where they build retreats, and are often collected in pitfall traps. Unlidded burrows are sometimes quite obvious in crusty, loamy soil.
Heptathelidae is a family of spiders. [1] It has been sunk within the family Liphistiidae as the subfamily Heptathelinae, [2] but as of April 2024 was accepted by the World Spider Catalog. [1] It is placed in suborder Mesothelae, which contains the most basal living spiders.
4 genera, 50 species Bemmeridae is a family of African and Asian mygalomorph spiders that was first described as the tribe Bemmereae by Eugène Simon in 1903. [ 2 ] It was elevated to a subfamily of funnel-web trapdoor spiders ( Bemmerinae ) in 1985, [ 3 ] then to its own family in 2020.