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Araneoidea
Araneus diadematus, Araneidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Division:	Entelegynae
Superfamily:	Araneoidea
Families
see text.
Diversity
15 families, 11155 species

The Araneoidea are a superfamily of araneomorph spiders. They contain families of eight-eyed spiders:

• Anapidae
• Araneidae
• Cyatholipidae
• Linyphiidae
• Mysmenidae
• Nephilidae
• Nesticidae
• Pimoidae
• Sinopimoidae^[1]
• Symphytognathidae
• Synaphridae
• Synotaxidae
• Tetragnathidae
• Theridiidae
• Theridiosomatidae

References

• Media related to Araneoidea at Wikimedia Commons
• Information related to Araneoidea from Wikispecies.

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Translingual

Etymology

Proper noun

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Araneoidea

1. a taxonomic superfamily, within suborder Araneomorphae - the eight-eyed spiders

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Araneoidea

Wikispecies

See also

• Anapidae
• Araraneidae
• Cyatholipidae
• Linyphiidae
• Mysmenidae
• Nephilidae
• Nesticidae
• Pimoidae
• Symphytognathidae
• Synaphridae
• Synotaxidae
• Tetragnathidae
• Theridiidae
• Theridiosomatidae

From Wikispecies

Nephila pilipes

Taxonavigation

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Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea
Familiae: Anapidae - Araneidae - Cyatholipidae - Linyphiidae - Mysmenidae - Nephilidae - Nesticidae - Pimoidae - Sinopimoidae - Symphytognathidae - Synaphridae - Synotaxidae - Tetragnathidae - Theridiidae - Theridiosomatidae - †Baltsuccinidae - †Ephalmatoridae - †Juraraneidae - †Protheridiidae - †incertae sedis

Name

Araneoidea

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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
• 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
• 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.

Vernacular names