Mikko's Phylogeny Archive

 

Mikko's Phylogeny Archive

Main Groups of Protostomes

 

Araneae - spiders

 

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

<==o Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869/1870 (birdspiders, baboonspiders, tarantula’s)

   |--+--+-- Selenogyrinae Smith, 1990

   |  |  |-- Eumenophorinae Pocock, 1897

   |  |  `-- Stromatopelminae Schmidt, 1993

   |  `--+-- Aviculariinae Simon, 1874

   |     |--+-- Acanthopelminae Smith, 1894

   |     |   `-- Theraphosinae Thorell 1869/1870 [ incl. Grammostolinae ]

   |     `--+-- Spelopelminae (Smith, 1894)

   |        `--+-- Ischnocolinae Aussurer, 1871

   |           `-- New Word Ischnocolinae Incertae Sedis

   |--o Selenocosmiiae

   |  |-- Harpactirinae Pocock, 1895

   |  |-- Selenocosmiinae Simon, 1889

   |  `-- Poecilotheriinae Simon, 1892

   `--o Ornithoctoniiae

      |-- Ornithoctoninae Pocock, 1895

      `-- Thrigmopoeinae Pocock, 1900

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

–iNet: The World Spider Catalog: http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/INTRO1.html

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