	Mikko's Phylogeny Archive	Main Groups of Protostomes
	Araneae - spiders

After “The World Spider Catalog” N. Platnick & "The Tree of Life"

<==o ARANEAE (spiders; hämähäkit)

|--o MESOTHELAE

| `--o Liphistiidae Thorell, 1869

`--+-- ARANEOMORPHAE (“Modern Spiders”; kutovat hämähäkit)

`--o MYGALOMORPHAE (“Primitive Spiders”; lintuhämähäkit)

|--+--+-- Microstigmatidae

| | `-- Mecicobothriidae

| `--+-- Hexathelidae

| `--+-- Dipluridae

| `--+-- Nemesiidae

| `--+-- Barychelidae

| `--+-- Paratropidae

| `-- Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869/1870

`--o ORTHOGNATHA?

|--+-- Antrodiaetidae

| `-- Atypidae (purseweb spiders)

`--+-- Cyrtaucheniidae

`--+-- Idiopidae

`--+-- Ctenizidae (kaivajahämähäkit; trapdoor spiders)

`--+-- Actinopodidae

`-- Migidae

Reference(s):

Maddison, D. R. & Maddison, W. P., 1995-1998: Araneae - Spiders.
–iNet: The Tree of Life Project: http://tolweb.org/tree/eukaryotes/animals/arthropoda/arachnida/araneae/araneae.html

Maddison, D. R. & Maddison, W. P., 1995-1998: Araneomorphae.
–iNet: The Tree of Life Project: http://tolweb.org/tree/eukaryotes/animals/arthropoda/arachnida/araneae/araneomorphae.html

Maddison, D. R. & Maddison, W. P., 1995-1998: Mygalomorphae.
–iNet: The Tree of Life Project: http://tolweb.org/tree/eukaryotes/animals/arthropoda/arachnida/araneae/mygalomorphae.html

Platnick, N., 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by The American Museum of Natural History