Entelegynae

Entelegynae
Common Funnel web spider Hippasa agelenoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Series:	Entelegynae
Superfamilies
See text.

The Entelegynae are a subgroup of araneomorph spiders. Almost all members of this group, unlike most members of Haplogynae, have eight eyes, and females have a genital plate. However, some entelegyne species have no (or reduced) eyes, and six-eyed spiders do occur, for example in the genus Lygromma (Prodidomidae, Gnaphosoidea).

This clade contains both cribellate and ecribellate spiders.

Superfamilies

• Eresoidea
• Archaeoidea
• Palpimanoidea
• Mimetoidea
• Uloboroidea
• Araneoidea
• Lycosoidea
• Agelenoidea
• Amaurobioidea
• Dictynoidea
• Sparassoidea
• Selenopoidea
• Zodarioidea
• Tengelloidea
• incertae sedis
  • Chummidae
  • Clubionidae
  • Cryptothelidae
  • Cycloctenidae
  • Halidae
  • Homalonychidae
  • Miturgidae
• Titanoecoidea
• Gnaphosoidea
• Thomisoidea
• Salticoidea
• Corinnoidea

References

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• Griswold, C.E., J.A. Coddington, N.I. Platnick, and R.R. Forster (1999). Towards a phylogeny of entelegyne spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae). Journal of Arachnology 27(1):53-63. PDF - Abstract - (accompanying Character Data)