Araneoidea

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
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea
Familiae (15 + fossils): Anapidae - Araneidae - Cyatholipidae - Fonteferridae - Linyphiidae - Mysmenidae - Nesticidae - Pimoidae - Sinopimoidae - Symphytognathidae - Synaphridae - Synotaxidae - Tetragnathidae - Theridiidae - Theridiosomatidae - †Baltsuccinidae - †Burmascutidae - †Cretamysmenidae - †Ephalmatoridae - †Juraraneidae - †Leviunguidae - †Praetheridiidae - †Protheridiidae - †Pumiliopimoidae - †Salticoididae - †Zarqaraneidae - †incertae sedis

Name

Araneoidea

Synonyms

Symphytognathoidea

References

Coddington, J.A. 1990: Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb-weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 496: 1–52. PDF
Dimitrov, D. et al. 2016: Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea). Cladistics, DOI: 10.1111/cla.12165 Reference page.
Griswold, C. E., J. A. Coddington, G. Hormiga & N. Scharff. 1998. Phylogeny of the orb-web building spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae: Deinopoidea, Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 123:1-99. PDF
Lopardo, L.; Giribet, G.; Hormiga, G. 2011: Morphology to the rescue: molecular data and the signal of morphological characters in combined phylogenetic analyses—a case study from mysmenid spiders (Araneae, Mysmenidae), with comments on the evolution of web architecture. Cladistics, 27(3): 278–330. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2010.00332.x
Miller, J.; Griswold, C.; Yin, C.M. 2009: The symphytognathoid spiders of the Gaoligongshan, Yunnan, China (Araneae: Araneoidea): systematics and diversity of micro-orbweavers. ZooKeys, 11: 9–195. Abstract PDF
Schütt, K. 2003: Phylogeny of Symphytognathidae s.l. (Araneae, Araneoidea). Zoologica scripta, 32: 129–151. DOI: 10.1046/j.1463-6409.2003.00103.x
Wunderlich, J. & Müller, P. 2018. Fossil spiders (Araneae) in Cretaceous Burmese amber. Beiträge zur Araneologie 11: 1–167. Reference page.

Vernacular names

한국어: 왕거미상과
中文: 圆蛛总科

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