Taxonavigation

Familia: Archaeidae
Subfamiliae: Archaeinae – Mecysmaucheniinae – †Jurarchaeinae – †Lacunaucheniinae
Genera (11): Afrarchaea – Austrarchaea – Eriauchenius – Madagascarchaea – Zephyrarchaea – †Archaea – †Burmesarchaea – †Eomysmauchenius – †Filiauchenius – †Lacunauchenius – †Myrmecarchaea – †Planarchaea

Name

• Archaeidae C. L. Koch & Berendt, 1854

References

• Koch, C.L. & Berendt, G.C. 1854. Die im Bernstein befindlichen Crustaceen, Myriapoden, Arachniden und Apteren der Vorwelt. In Berendt, G.C., Die im Bernstein befindlichen Organischen Reste der Vorwelt 1(2): 1–124. Reference page. 
• 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. hdl: 2246/991
• Penney, D. 2003. Afrarchaea grimaldii, a new species of Archaeidae (Araneae) in Cretaceous Burmese amber. Journal of arachnology 31: 122–130. PDF.

• Wood, H.M., Griswold, C.E. & Gillespie, R.G. 2012. Phylogenetic placement of pelican spiders (Archaeidae, Araneae), with insight into evolution of the “neck” and predatory behaviours of the superfamily Palpimanoidea. Cladistics 28(6): 598–626. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00411.x . Reference page. 

• Wood, H.M. & Scharff, N. 2018. A review of the Madagascan pelican spiders of the genera Eriauchenius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881 and Madagascarchaea gen. n. (Araneae, Archaeidae). ZooKeys 727: 1–96. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.727.20222. Reference page. 

• Wood, H.M., Singh, H. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2021. Another Laurasian connection in the Early Eocene of India: Myrmecarchaea spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae). Zookeys 1071ː 49–61. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1071.72515 Reference page. 

• Wunderlich, J. 2008. The dominance of ancient spider families of the Araneae: Haplogyne in the Cretaceous, and the late diversification of advanced ecribellate spiders of the Entelegynae after the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary extinction events, with descriptions of new families. Beiträge zur Araneologie 5: 524–675. Reference page. 

• Wunderlich, J. 2015. On the evolution and the classification of spiders, the Mesozoic spider faunas, and descriptions of new Cretaceous taxa mainly in amber from Myanmar (Burma) (Arachnida: Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 9: 21–408. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

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