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    The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point...
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    suborder of spiders within the order Araneae, containing Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae, but excluding Mesothelae. The Opisthothelae are sometimes presented...
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    comprise around 7% of the total, the remaining 93% being in the Araneomorphae. The Araneomorphae are divided into two main groups: the Haplogynae and the Entelegynae...
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    the Mesothelae. The main groups of modern spiders, Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae, first appeared in the Triassic period, more than 200 million years...
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    into two groups, which he called Mygalomorphae and Arachnomorphae (now Araneomorphae), implicitly adopting the phylogeny shown below. Pocock's approach was...
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    Agelenidae (category Araneomorphae families)
    The Agelenidae are a large family of spiders in the suborder Araneomorphae. Well-known examples include the common "grass spiders" of the genus Agelenopsis...
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    spider in the family Salticidae ("jumping spiders"), in the infraorder Araneomorphae ("true spiders"). The distribution range of Phidippus arizonensis includes...
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    axis. This kind of chelicera is rotated and occurs exclusively in the Araneomorphae spiders. The chelicerae consist of a base segment, sometimes called...
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    Araneus ventricosus is also included in the Entelygynae subgroup of Araneomorphae, as well as Orbicularae, which is a group branching from Entelygynae...
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    purseweb spiders. They can also be confused with some members of the order Araneomorphae such as the Lycosidae family. There are multiple ways to identify a...
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