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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.
In 1939, Alexander Petrunkevitch raised the tribe Heptatheleae to a separate family, Heptathelidae. In 1985, Robert Raven reunited the two families, [4] a view supported by Breitling in 2022. [5] Other authors have maintained two separate families, [2] [6] a position accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of April 2024. [7]
11 genera, 103 species 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 ]
Lycosoidea is a clade or superfamily of araneomorph spiders.The traditional circumscription was based on a feature of the eyes. The tapetum is a reflective layer at the back of the eye, thought to increase sensitivity in low light levels.
Desidae is a family of spiders, some of which are known as intertidal spiders. The family is named for the genus Desis , members of which inhabit the intertidal zone . The family has been reevaluated in recent years and now includes inland genera and species as well, such as Badumna and Phryganoporus .
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]
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]
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]