| Lycosoidea | |
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| Wolf spider carrying young | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Section: | Entelegynae |
| Superfamily: | Lycosoidea |
| Families | |
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| Diversity | |
| 12 families, c. 4,000 species | |
The Lycosoidea are a superfamily of araneomorph eight-eyed spiders, with twelve families:
- Ctenidae
- Lycosidae
- Neolanidae
- Oxyopidae
- Pisauridae
- Psechridae
- Senoculidae
- Stiphidiidae
- Trechaleidae
- Zoridae
- Zorocratidae
- Zoropsidae
According to Fang et al. (2000)[1], the relationship of some families, inferred from mitochondrial 12S and 16S rDNA, is as follows:
+---- Psechridae
+--|
| +---- Oxyopidae
----|
| +---- Pisauridae
+--|
+---- Lycosidae
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- ^ Fang, K, Yang, C.-C., Lue, B.-W., Chen, S.-H. & Lue, K.-Y. (2000). Phylogenetic Corroboration of Superfamily Lycosoidae [sic] Spiders (Araneae) as Inforred from Partial Mitochondrial 12S and 16S Ribosomal DNA Sequences. Zoological Studies 39(2):107-113. PDF
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