Orb web spiders

Orb web spiders
Argiope aurantia
Systematics
Sub-stem : Jawbearers (Chelicerata) Class : Arachnids (arachnida) Order : Spiders (Araneae) Subordination : Real spiders (Araneomorphae) Partial order : Entelegynae Superfamily : Orb web spiders
Scientific name
Araneoidea
Latreille , 1806

The orb web spiders (Araneoidea) are a superfamily of the real web spiders (Araneomorphae). The group includes 15 families with over 3000 species in over 200 genera . The eponymous feature of the superfamily are the cycle networks formed by all the families it contains .

Systematics

The superfamily of orb-web spiders comprises 14 families:

• Dwarf ball spiders (Anapidae)
• Real orb web spiders (Araneidae)
• Arkyidae
• Cyatholipidae
• Canopy spiders (Linyphiidae)
• Small ball spiders (Mysmenidae)
• Cave spiders (Nesticidae)
• Physoglenidae
• Pimoidae
• Symphytognathidae
• Synaphridae
• Synotaxidae
• Thick jaw spiders (Tetragnathidae)
• Ball spiders (Theridiidae)
• Dwarf web spiders (Theridiosomatidae)

The following families are currently considered synonyms :

• Micropholcommatidae (synonym of Anapidae )
• Silk spiders (Nephilidae; synonym of Araneidae )

Individual evidence

1. ^ JA Shear & WA Shear: Taxonomic Glossary. Spiders: Webs, Behavior, and Evolution . Pp. 405ff Stanford University Press, 1986 ISBN 978-0-8047-1203-3 Books
2. ↑ Gustavo Hormiga & Charles E. Griswold: Systematics, Phylogeny, and Evolution of Orb-Weaving Spiders . Annual Review of Entomologyy, 59, 1 pp. 87-512 doi : 10.1146 / annurev-ento-011613-162046
3. ↑ Charles E. Griswold, MJ Ramirez & NI Platnick: Atlas of phylogenetic data for entelegyne spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae: Entelegynae) with comments on their phylogeny . Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 56, Suppl. 2, pp. 1-324, 2005 PDF
4. ↑ Jonathan A. Coddington & Herbert W. Levi: Systematics and evolution of spiders (Araneae) . Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, pp. 565-592, 1991
5. ↑ Natural History Museum of the Burgergemeinde Bern: World Spider Catalog Version 18.0 - Anapidae . Retrieved May 30, 2017.
6. ↑ Natural History Museum of the Burgergemeinde Bern: World Spider Catalog Version 18.0 - Araneidae . Retrieved May 30, 2017.