Family Dictynidae - Mesh Web Weavers

Classification · Other Common Names · Identification

Tube-dwelling spider - Cicurina bryantae

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynes)

Family Dictynidae (Mesh Web Weavers)

Other Common Names

Dictynids

Identification

Eye arrangement in Dictyna and another member of the family:

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 1:20pm
Additional contributions by cotinis
Last updated 30 October, 2007 - 1:23pm

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