Tetragnathidae

Tetragnatha obtusa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Araneoidea
Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Taxon: Neocribellatae Series: Entelegynae Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Tetragnathidae
Subfamiliae: Leucauginae - Metainae - Tetragnathinae - incertae sedis

Overview of genera

Alcimosphenus - Allende - Antillognatha - Atelidea - Atimiosa - Azilia - Chrysometa - Cyrtognatha - Dianleucauge - Diphya - Dolichognatha - Doryonychus - Dyschiriognatha - Eryciniolia - Glenognatha - Guizygiella - Hispanognatha - Homalometa - Leucauge - Mecynometa - Menosira - Mesida - Meta - Metabus - Metellina - Metleucauge - Mitoscelis - Mollemeta - Nanningia - Nanometa - Neoprolochus - Okileucauge - Opadometa - Opas - Orsinome - Pachygnatha - Parameta - Parazilia - Pholcipes - Pickardinella - Pinkfloydia - Sancus - Schenkeliella - Tetragnatha - Timonoe - Tylorida - Wolongia - Zygiometella

Name

• Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866

Synonyms

• Pachygnathidae Menge, 1866

References

• Álvarez-Padilla, F. 2007: Systematics of the spider genus Metabus O. P.-Cambridge, 1899 (Araneoidea: Tetragnathidae) with additions to the tetragnathid fauna of Chile and comments on the phylogeny of Tetragnathidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 151: 285-335. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00304.x
• Álvarez-Padilla, F.; Dimitrov, D.; Giribet, G.; Hormiga, G. 2009: Phylogenetic relationships of the spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae, Araneoidea) based on morphological and DNA sequence data. Cladistics, 25: 109-146. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00242.x
• Álvarez-Padilla, F.; Hormiga, G. 2011: Morphological and phylogenetic atlas of the orb-weaving spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae: Araneoidea). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 162(4): 713–879. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00692.x

• Dimitrov, D.; Hormiga, G. 2011: An extraordinary new genus of spiders from Western Australia with an expanded hypothesis on the phylogeny of Tetragnathidae (Araneae). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 161(4): 735–768. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00662.x ZooBank
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• Paquin, P.; Vink, C.J.; Dupérré, N. 2010: Spiders of New Zealand: annotated family key & species list. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, New Zealand. ISBN 9780478347050

links

• Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Vernacular names

English: Long-jawed orb weaver
한국어: 갈거미과
日本語: アシナガグモ科
中文: 肖蛸科, 長腳蛛科

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