Araneae

Xysticus sp.

Taxonavigation

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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordines (2): Opisthothelae - Mesothelae

Overview of familiae (109)

Actinopodidae - Agelenidae - Amaurobiidae - Ammoxenidae - Amphinectidae - Anapidae - Antrodiaetidae - Araneidae - Archaeidae - Atypidae - Austrochilidae - Barychelidae - Caponiidae - Chummidae - Cithaeronidae - Clubionidae - Corinnidae - Ctenidae - Ctenizidae - Cyatholipidae - Cybaeidae - Cycloctenidae - Cyrtaucheniidae - Deinopidae - Desidae - Dictynidae - Diguetidae - Dipluridae - Drymusidae - Dysderidae - Eresidae - Filistatidae - Gallieniellidae - Gnaphosidae - Gradungulidae - Hahniidae - Halidae - Hersiliidae - Hexathelidae - Holarchaeidae - Homalonychidae - Huttoniidae - Hypochilidae - Idiopidae - Lamponidae - Leptonetidae - Linyphiidae - Liocranidae - Liphistiidae - Lycosidae - Malkaridae - Mecicobothriidae - Mecysmaucheniidae - Microstigmatidae - Migidae - Mimetidae - Miturgidae - Mysmenidae - Nemesiidae - Nephilidae - Nesticidae - Nicodamidae - Ochyroceratidae - Oecobiidae - Oonopidae - Orsolobidae - Oxyopidae - Palpimanidae - Pararchaeidae - Paratropididae - Penestomidae - Periegopidae - Philodromidae - Pholcidae - Phyxelididae - Pimoidae - Pisauridae - Plectreuridae - Prodidomidae - Psechridae - Salticidae - Scytodidae - Segestriidae - Selenopidae - Senoculidae - Sicariidae - Sinopimoidae - Sparassidae - Stenochilidae - Stiphidiidae - Symphytognathidae - Synaphridae - Synotaxidae - Telemidae - Tengellidae - Tetrablemmidae - Tetragnathidae - Theraphosidae - Theridiidae - Theridiosomatidae - Thomisidae - Titanoecidae - Trechaleidae - Trochanteriidae - Trogloraptoridae - Uloboridae - Zodariidae - Zorocratidae - Zoropsidae + fossil familiae

References

selected references

• Chen, X. et al. 2010: A survey of nectar feeding by spiders in three different habitats. Bulletin of insectology, 63(2): 203-208. full article (PDF)
• Dunlop, J.A.; Penney, D. 2011: Order Araneae Clerck, 1757. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011: Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa, 3148: 149–153. ISBN 978-1-86977-849-1 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-86977-850-7 (online edition) PDF
• Jocqué, R.; Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S. 2006: Spider families of the world. Tervuren, Belgium: Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale; [Pretoria, South Africa]: ARC-PPRI. ISBN 90-75894-85-6 download links
• Penney, D.; Dunlop, J.A.; Marusik, Y.M. 2012: Summary statistics for fossil spider species taxonomy. ZooKeys, 192: 1–13. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.192.3093 reference page 

additional references

• Cardoso, P.; Morano, E. 2010: The Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa, 2495: 1–52. Preview
• Paquin, P. et al. 2010: Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Canada and Alaska. Zootaxa, 2461: 1–170. Preview
• Penney, D.; Selden, P.A. 2006: Assembling the Tree of Life—Phylogeny of Spiders: a review of the strictly fossil spider families. In: Deltshev, C.; Stoev, P. (eds.) European arachnology 2005. Acta zoologica bulgarica, suppl. (1): 25-39. PDF
• Platnick, N.I. 1989: Advances in spider taxonomy 1981-1987. A supplement to Brignoli's 'A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981'. Manchester University Press, Manchester & New York. ISBN 0-7190-2782-9
• Robinson, E.A.; Blagoev, G.; Hebert, P.D.N.; Adamowicz, S.J. 2009: Prospects for using DNA barcoding to identify spiders in species-rich genera. In: Stoev, P.; Dunlop, J.; Lazarov, S. (eds) A life caught in a spider's web. Papers in arachnology in honour of Christo Deltshev. ZooKeys, 16: 27-46. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.16.239
• Saturnino, R. et al. 2009: Catalogue of type specimens of invertebrates in the collection of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil. V. Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones and Scorpiones. Zootaxa, 2247: 51-67. Abstract & excerpt
• Stoev, P.; Popov, A.; Blagoev, G.; Lazarov, S. 2009: Fifty years of devotion to spiders: a concise biography of Christo Deltshev, with a complete list of his publications and described taxa. 1-26. In: Stoev, P.; Dunlop, J.; Lazarov, S. (eds) A life caught in a spider's web. Papers in arachnology in honour of Christo Deltshev. ZooKeys, 16: 1-26. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.16.238

selected links

• The World Spider Catalog, Version 12.5 [last updated: December 31, 2011]

Vernacular names

български: Паяци
česky: Pavouci
Deutsch: Spinnen
Diné bizaad: Naʼashjéʼii
Ελληνικά: Αράχνες
English: Spiders
español: Arañas
français: Aranéides
한국어: 거미목
Հայերեն: Սարդեր
italiano: Ragni
עברית: עכבישאים
Nederlands: Spinnen
日本語: クモ目
polski: Pająki
português: Aranha
română: Păianjen
русский: Пауки
suomi: hämähäkit
svenska: Spindlar
ไทย: แมงมุม
Türkçe: Örümcekler

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