Overview
Amaurobiidae is a family of spiders also known as "tangled nest ", "night spiders" or "hacklemesh weavers".
These cribellate spiders of medium size look similar to the related Agelenidae, but have shorter legs and much smaller spinnerets.
Their nets have roughly the form of a funnel.
Taxonomy
The Family Amaurobiidae is a member of the Superfamily Agelenoidea. Here is the complete "parentage" of Amaurobiidae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
Aguinaldo Et Al., 1997 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829
- Subphylum: Arachnomorpha
Heider, 1913
- Infraphylum: Cheliceriformes
- Superclass: Chelicerata
- Class: Arachnida
Cuvier, 1812 - Arachnids
- Subclass: Micrura
- Order: Araneae
Clerck, 1757 - Spiders
- Suborder: Opisthothelae
- Modern Spiders
- Infraorder: Araneomorphae
- Superfamily: Agelenoidea
- Family: Amaurobiidae
- Superfamily: Agelenoidea
- Infraorder: Araneomorphae
- Suborder: Opisthothelae
- Modern Spiders
- Order: Araneae
Clerck, 1757 - Spiders
- Subclass: Micrura
- Class: Arachnida
Cuvier, 1812 - Arachnids
- Superclass: Chelicerata
- Infraphylum: Cheliceriformes
- Subphylum: Arachnomorpha
Heider, 1913
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
Aguinaldo Et Al., 1997 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Family Amaurobiidae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Subfamily (7): Bombinae · Boraginoideae · Caryophylloideae · Faboideae · Pyroideae · Rhododendroideae · Scrophularioideae
- Tribe (8): Bombini · Coronilleae · Genisteae · Gratioleae · Maleae · Myosotideae · Rhododendreae · Sileneae
- Genus (69): Altellopsis · Amaurobius · Ambanus · Anisacate · Arctobius · Asiacoelotes · Auhunga · Auximella · Bakala · Bifidocoelotes · Callevopsis · Callioplus · Callobius · Chresiona · Ciniflella · Coelotes · Coras · Coronilla · Cybaeopsis · Dardurus · Draconarius · Emmenomma · Eurocoelotes · Femoracoelotes · Himalcoelotes · Jamara · Leptocoelotes · Livius · Longicoelotes · Macrobunus · Malala · Maloides · Manjala · Midgee · Muritaia · Naevius · Neoporteria · Neowadotes · Neuquenia · Obatala · Otira · Pakeha · Paracoelotes · Paravoca · Pimus · Platocoelotes · Poaka · Pseudauximus · Retiro · Rhoicinaria · Robusticoelotes · Rubrius · Spiricoelotes · Storenosoma · Taira · Tamgrinia · Tegecoelotes · Tonsilla · Tugana · Tymbira · Urepus · Urocoras · Virgilus · Wabarra · Wadotes · Waitetola · Yacolla · Yupanquia · Zanomys
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 793 species and subspecies in the Family Amaurobiidae.
Genera
Altellopsis
Amaurobius
Amaurobius is a genus of spiders with mostly holarctic distribution. [more]
Ambanus
Anisacate
Arctobius
Asiacoelotes
Auhunga
Auximella
Bakala
Bifidocoelotes
Callevopsis
Callioplus
Callobius
Callobius is a spider genus in the family with 28 species that occur in North America and Eurasia. [more]
Chresiona
Ciniflella
Coelotes
Coras
Coronilla
A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]
Cybaeopsis
Dardurus
Draconarius
The draconarius was a type of who bore a cavalry standard known as a draco in the Roman army. It is thought to have originated with the Sarmatians and made its way into the Roman armies when Sarmatians and Dacians were used as auxiliaries in the early 2nd century AD. It consisted of a gaping bronze dragon head with a fabric body similar in shape to a short snake behind it. Wind flowed through the bronze dragon mouth and billowed out the cloth tail much like a modern wind-sock. It is thought that some form of whistle was mounted in the dragon's neck in order to make a terrifying noise when galloping. [more]
Emmenomma
Eurocoelotes
Femoracoelotes
Himalcoelotes
Jamara
Leptocoelotes
Livius
A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]
Longicoelotes
Macrobunus
Malala
Maloides
Manjala
Midgee
Muritaia
Naevius
Naevius was the for the plebeian gens Naevia of ancient Rome. [more]
Neoporteria
A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]
Neowadotes
Neuquenia
Obatala
In orisha (also spelt orisa or orixa) veneration, Obątįlį, through the power of God, the Supreme Being, (called by various names in the Yoruba language such as Olodumare, Eledumare, Olofin-Orun, Eleda, and Olorun), made human bodies, and Olorun (God) breathed life into them. Obątįlį is also the owner of all ori or heads. Any orisha may lay claim to an individual, but until that individual is initiated into the priesthood of that orisha, Obątįlį still owns that head. This stems from the belief that the soul resides in the head. [more]
Otira
Otira is a small township seven kilometres north of in the central South Island of New Zealand. It is on the western approach to the pass, a saddle between the Otira and Bealey Rivers high in the Southern Alps. [more]
Pakeha
Pakeha are of predominantly European ancestry. They are mostly descended from British and to a lesser extent Irish settlers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, although some Pakeha have Dutch, Scandinavian, German, Yugoslav or other ancestry. The word Pakeha is also sometimes used to refer to any non-Maori person. [more]
Paracoelotes
Paravoca
Pimus
Platocoelotes
Poaka
Pseudauximus
Retiro
Retiro ( for Retirement) might refer to the following: [more]
Rhoicinaria
Robusticoelotes
Rubrius
Spiricoelotes
Storenosoma
Taira
A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]
Tamgrinia
Tegecoelotes
Tonsilla
The cerebellar tonsil (amygdaline nucleus) is a rounded mass, situated in the hemispheres of the . [more]
Tugana
Tymbira
Urepus
Urocoras
Virgilus
Wabarra
Wadotes
Waitetola
Yacolla
Yupanquia
Zanomys
At least 8 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Zanomys.
More info about the Genus Zanomys may be found here.
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