Achaearanea

Taxobox
name = "Achaearanea"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Theridiidae
genus = "Achaearanea"
genus_authority = Strand, 1929
diversity_link = List of Theridiidae species#Achaearanea
diversity = c. 150 species
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = about 150

The genus of spiders known as Achaearanea used to include the extremely abundant common house spider, which was transferred to genus "Parasteatoda" in 2006Platnick 2008] . Being members of the tangle web spider family, Achaearanea spiders are related to the famous widow spiders.

Footnotes

References

* (2008): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 9.0. "American Museum of Natural History".