
Taxonavigation
Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordines (2):
Opisthothelae –
Mesothelae
Overview of families (120)
Actinopodidae – Agelenidae – Amaurobiidae – Ammoxenidae – Anapidae – Antrodiaetidae – Anyphaenidae – Araneidae – Archaeidae – Arkyidae – Atracidae – Atypidae – Austrochilidae – Barychelidae – Caponiidae – Cheiracanthidae – Cithaeronidae – Clubionidae – Corinnidae – Ctenidae – Ctenizidae – Cyatholipidae – Cybaeidae – Cycloctenidae – Cyrtaucheniidae – Deinopidae – Desidae – Dictynidae – Diguetidae – Dipluridae – Drymusidae – Dysderidae – Eresidae – Euctenizidae – Filistatidae – Gallieniellidae – Gnaphosidae – Gradungulidae – Hahniidae – Halonoproctidae – Hersiliidae – Hexathelidae – Hexurellidae – Homalonychidae – Huttoniidae – Hypochilidae – Idiopidae – Lamponidae – Leptonetidae – Linyphiidae – Liocranidae – Liphistiidae – Lycosidae – Macrothelidae – Malkaridae – Mecicobothriidae – Mecysmaucheniidae – megadictynidae – Megahexuridae – Microstigmatidae – Migidae – Mimetidae – Miturgidae – Myrmecicultoridae – Mysmenidae – Nemesiidae – Nesticidae – Nicodamidae – Ochyroceratidae – Oecobiidae – Oonopidae – Orsolobidae – Oxyopidae – Pacullidae – Palpimanidae – Paratropididae – Penestomidae – Periegopidae – Philodromidae – Pholcidae – Phrurolithidae - Physoglenidae – Phyxelididae – Pimoidae – Pisauridae – Plectreuridae – Porrhothelidae – Psechridae – Psilodercidae – Salticidae – Scytodidae – Segestriidae – Selenopidae – Senoculidae – Sicariidae – Sparassidae – Stenochilidae – Stiphidiidae – Symphytognathidae – Synaphridae – Synotaxidae – Telemidae – Tetrablemmidae – Tetragnathidae – Theraphosidae – Theridiidae – Theridiosomatidae – Thomisidae – Titanoecidae – Toxopidae – Trachelidae – Trechaleidae – Trochanteriidae – Trogloraptoridae – Udubidae – Uloboridae – Viridasiidae – Xenoctenidae – Zodariidae – Zoropsidae
Name
Araneae Clerck, 1757
References
- Clerck, C. 1758 [1757]. Aranei Svecici, descriptionibus et figuris æneis illustrati, ad genera subalterna redacti, speciebus ultra LX determinati (L. Salvii). Stockholm. Full book Reference page.
Additional 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 978-9075-89485-1. Reference page.
- Lyle, R. & Haddad, C.R. 2018. Jocquestus, a new genus of trachelid sac spiders from the Afrotropical Region (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4471(2): 309–333. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4471.2.4
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- Merrett, P.; Russell-Smith, A.; Harvey, P. 2014: A revised check list of British spiders. Arachnology 16(4): 134–144. Reference page.
- 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
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- Platnick, N.I.; Raven, R.J. 2013: Spider systematics: past and future. Zootaxa 3683(5): 595–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3683.5.8 Reference page.
- Wang, L-Y., Chen, H-M., Zhou, K-X., Zhang, F. & Zhang, Z-S. 2015f. Diversity of spiders in Fanjing Mountain Nature Reserve, Guizhou, China, I: Six new species of Phrurolithidae (Araneae). Zootaxa 4012(3): 447–464. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4012.3.2. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
- Bennett, R., Blagoev, G. & Copley, C. 2019. Araneae of Canada. Pp 41–56 In Langor, D.W. & Sheffield, C.S. (eds.). The Biota of Canada – A Biodiversity Assessment. Part 1: The Terrestrial Arthropods. ZooKeys 819: 520 pp. Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.819.26391 Reference page.
- Čandek, K., Gregorič, M., Kostanjšek, R., Frick, H., Kropf, C. & Kuntner, M. 2013. Targeting a portion of central European spider diversity for permanent preservation. Biodiversity data journal, 1: e980. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.1.e980 Reference page.
- Cardoso P. & Morano E., 2010. The Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa, 2495: 1–52. Preview
- Cardoso, P., Shirey, V., Seppälä, S., Henriques, S., Draney, M., Foord, S., Gibbons, A., Gomez, L., Kariko, S., Malumbres-Olarte, J., Milne, M.A. & Vink, C.J. 2019. Globally distributed occurrences utilised in 200 spider species conservation profiles (Arachnida, Araneae). Biodiversity Data Journal 7: e33264. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.7.e33264 Reference page.
- Castanheira, P., Pérez-González, A. & Baptista, R.L.C. 2016. Spider diversity (Arachnida: Araneae) in Atlantic Forest areas at Pedra Branca State Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e7055. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e7055. Reference page.
- Deltshev, C. et al. 2013: Faunistic diversity of spiders (Araneae) in Galichitsa Mountain (FYR Macedonia). Biodiversity data journal, 1: e977. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.1.e977 Reference page.
- Dupérré, N. & Harms, D. 2018. Raising the Dead: Rediscovery and redescription of some lost spider types (Araneae) described by Eugène Simon. Evolutionary Systematics 2: 1–20. DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.2.24122 Reference page.
- Kostanjšek, R.; Kuntner, M. 2015: Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1–91. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.474.8474 Reference page.
- Ledesma, E., Jiménez-Valverde, A., de Castro, A., Aguado-Aranda, P. & Ortuño, V.M. 2019. The study of hidden habitats sheds light on poorly known taxa: spiders of the Mesovoid Shallow Substratum. Zookeys, 841: 39–59. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.841.33271 Reference page.
- Malumbres-Olarte, J., Cardoso, P., Crespo, L.C., Gabriel, R., Pereira, F., Carvalho, R., Rego, C., Nunes, R., Ferreira, M., Amorim, I., Rigal, F. & Borges, P.A.V. 2019. Standardised inventories of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Macaronesia I: The native forests of the Azores (Pico and Terceira islands). Biodiversity Data Journal, 7: e32625. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.7.e32625 Reference page.
- Miller, J. et al. 2013: Spider hosts (Arachnida, Araneae) and wasp parasitoids (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ephialtini) matched using DNA barcodes. Biodiversity data journal 1: e992. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.1.e992 Reference page.
- 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. and 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
- Štokmane, M. & Cera, I. 2018. Revision of the calcareous fen arachnofauna: habitat affinities of the fen-inhabiting spiders. Zookeys, 802: 67–108. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.802.26449 Reference page.
- Zonstein, S.; Marusik, Y.M. 2013: Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Israel. Zootaxa 3671(1): 1–127. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3671.1.1 Reference page.
Links
- The World Spider Catalog, Version 14.5 [last updated: December 31, 2013]
Vernacular names
অসমীয়া: মকৰা
беларуская: Павукі
български: Паяци
বাংলা: মাকড়সা
čeština: Pavouci
Deutsch: Spinnen
eʋegbe: Ayiyi
Ελληνικά: Αράχνες
English: Spider
español: Arañas
suomi: hämähäkit
français: Aranéides
עברית: עכבישאים
हिन्दी: मकडी
հայերեն: Սարդեր
Bahasa Indonesia: Laba-laba
italiano: Ragni
日本語: クモ目
한국어: 거미목
မြန်မာဘာသာ: ပင့်ကူ
Nederlands: Spinnen
Diné bizaad: Naʼashjéʼii
polski: Pająki
português: Aranhas
română: Păianjen
русский: Пауки
svenska: Spindlar
ไทย: แมงมุม
Türkçe: Örümcekler
中文: 蜘蛛目
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