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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Ghost Spiders (Anyphaenidae)

Family Anyphaenidae - Ghost Spiders

Classification · Other Common Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Spider Spider spider oo5 Spider id Pale spider - Hibana Spider found in door crack Hibana velox? Spider id needed - Anyphaena
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Anyphaenidae (Ghost Spiders)
Other Common Names
In Europe - Buzzing Spiders
Numbers
37 species in 6 genera.
Anyphaena
Arachosia
Hibana
Lupettiana
Pippuhana (previously in Anyphaena)
Wulfila
Size
3.0-8.5 mm.
Identification
"Similar in appearance to sac spiders, and used to be placed in the same family. They differ in that they have two rows of club-shaped hairs on the bottoms of their feet, and their tracheal spiracle is located well in front of the spinnerets, unlike most spiders which have their tracheal opening right in front of the spinnerets."(1)
Print References
The Spider Family Anyphaenidae in America North of Mexico - revision of the family by Dr. Platnick, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 146:205-266 (1974).

(2)
Internet References
Above Title online
Works Cited
1.Florida's Fabulous Spiders
Sam Marshall, G. B. Edwards. 2002. World Publications.
2.Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual
D. Ubick, P. Paquin, P.E. Cushing and V. Roth (eds). 2005. American Arachnological Society.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 2 December, 2005 - 3:06pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, john and jane balaban, Lynette Elliott, cheins, kschnei, Mandy Howe
Last updated 12 April, 2022 - 3:08pm

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