- Amaurobiidae
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Tangled nest spiders 
Callobius sp. Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Suborder: Araneomorphae Superfamily: Amaurobioidea Family: Amaurobiidae
Thorell, 1870Genera Callobius
Coras
Amaurobius
Coelotes
Draconarius
Paracoelotes
Pimus
Pireneitega
Rubrius
many othersDiversity 71 genera, 682 species 
Pimus sp.
The Amaurobiidae are three-clawed cribellate or ecribellate spiders found in most parts of the world and difficult to distinguish from related spiders in other families, especially Agelenidae, Desidae and Amphinectidae. Their intra- and interfamilial relationships are contentious. In Spider Families of the World 2007 they were represented by 69 genera and about 640 species in 5 subfamilies.
In Australia they are small to medium-sized entelgyne spiders with generous sheet webs across the floor of rainforests. They generally have eight similar eyes in two conservatively curved rows. They often have a calamistrum on metatarsus IV associated with a cribellum. Australian Amaurobiids may be distinguished from Amphinectidae by the absence of a pre-tarsal fracture and the presence of a retrocoxal hymen on coxa I.[1]
References
External links
- [2] The World Spider Catalog, Version 12.0 by Norman I. Platnick
- [3] Spider Families of the World, Publisher: African Museum in Tervuren Author:R. Jocqué, A.S. Dippenaar-Schoeman
See also
- List of Amaurobiidae species
- Spider families
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