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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Lists of spider species" The following 8 pages are in this category, out ...
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 .
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This page lists all described species of the spider family Sicariidae accepted by the World Spider Catalog ...
Page information; Get shortened URL; Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Spider families (2 C, 5 P) G.
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]
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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.