Infraorder ARANEOMORPHAE
Compiler and date details
2012 - Updated by Dr Robert Raven, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, with families by Dr Barbara Baehr, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, and Dr Helen Smith, Australian Museum, Sydney, as indicated for each of these.
- Raven, R.J. 2012. Revisions of Australian ground-hunting spiders. V. A new lycosoid genus from eastern Australia (Araneae: Tengellidae). Zootaxa 3305: 28–52 [Date published 9 May 2012] [29]
Introduction
The Araneomorphae are the most speciose and morphologically diverse of the spiders. They include some of the least developed spiders through to the highly socially interactive and sighted Jumping spiders of the family Salticidae.
Excluded Taxa
- Misidentifications
AUSTROCHILIDAE Zapfe, 1955 [Restricted to South America; previously recorded from Australia to include the genus Hickmania, however Kulkarni & Hormiga (2021) found the genus to be more closely related to those in the family Gradungulidae and reassigned Hickmania to that family] — Kulkarni, S. & Hormiga, G. 2021. Hooroo mates! Phylogenomic data suggest that the closest relatives of the iconic Tasmanian cave spider Hickmania troglodytes are in Australia and New Zealand, not in South America. Invertebrate Systematics 2021 35: 850-856
Diagnosis
Spiders with transverse or diagonal fang action with terminal spinnerets and abdomen lacking external segmentation.
General References
Hormiga, G. & Griswold, C.E. 2014. Systematics, phylogeny, and evolution of Orb-Weaving Spiders. Annual Review of Entomology 59: 487-512
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15-Oct-2020 | ARANEAE | 25-May-2022 | MODIFIED | |
| 27-Oct-2014 | ARANEOMORPHAE | 23-Oct-2014 | REVIEWED | Dr Federica Turco Jurgen Otto |
| 15-Oct-2020 | 20-Jun-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |