Archaeidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Archaeoidea
Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Taxon: Neocribellatae Series: Entelegynae Superfamilia: Archaeoidea

Familia: Archaeidae
Genera (5): Afrarchaea - Austrarchaea - Eriauchenius - Zephyrarchaea - †Archaea

Name

• Archaeidae C. L. Koch & Berendt, 1854

References

• Forster, R.R.; Platnick, N.I. 1984: A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 178: 1-106.
• Penney, D. 2003: Afrarchaea grimaldii, a new species of Archaeidae (Araneae) in Cretaceous Burmese amber. Journal of arachnology, 31: 122-130. PDF

selected links

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

Vernacular names

English: assassin spiders