Family Miturgidae - Prowling Spiders

Classification

Small Ivory coloured Spider - Cheiracanthium - male

Genus Cheiracanthium - Longlegged Sac Spiders - Cheiracanthium

Yellow sac spider in its sac - Cheiracanthium - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynes)

Family Miturgidae (Prowling Spiders)

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 10 September, 2004 - 10:29pm
Additional contributions by Jay Barnes
Last updated 3 February, 2008 - 5:31pm

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