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Araneoidea
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Araneoidea is a taxon of araneomorph spiders, termed "araneoids", treated as a superfamily. As with many such groups, its circumscription has varied; in particular some families that had at one time been moved to the Palpimanoidea have more recently been restored to Araneoidea. A 2014 treatment includes 18 families, with the araneoids making up about 26% of the total number of known spider species; a 2016 treatment includes essentially the same taxa, but now divided into 17 families.
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Die Radnetzspinnen (Araneoidea) sind eine Überfamilie der Echten Webspinnen (Araneomorphae). Die Gruppe umfasst 15 Familien mit über 3000 Arten in über 200 Gattungen. Das namensgebende Merkmal der Überfamilie sind die von vielen enthaltenen Familien ausgebildeten Radnetze.[1][2][3][4] Systematik Die Überfamilie der Radnetzspinnen umfasst 14 Familien: Zwergkugelspinnen (Anapidae) Echte Radnetzspinnen (Araneidae) Arkyidae Cyatholipidae Baldachinspinnen (Linyphiidae) Kleinkugelspinnen (Mysmenidae) Höhlenspinnen (Nesticidae) Physoglenidae Pimoidae Symphytognathidae Synaphridae Synotaxidae Dickkieferspinnen (Tetragnathidae) Kugelspinnen (Theridiidae) Zwergradnetzspinnen (Theridiosomatidae) Die folgenden Familien gelten aktuell als Synonyme: Micropholcommatidae (Synonym der Anapidae[5]) Seidenspinnen (Nephilidae; Synonym der Araneidae[6]) Einzelnachweise ↑ J. A. Shear & W. A. Shear: Taxonomic Glossary. Spiders: Webs, Behavior, and Evolution. S. 405ff Stanford University Press, 1986 ISBN 978-0-8047-1203-3 Books ↑ Gustavo Hormiga & Charles E. Griswold: Systematics, Phylogeny, and Evolution of Orb-Weaving Spiders. Annual Review of Entomologyy, 59, 1 S. 87–512 doi:10.1146/annurev-ent
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Araneoidea is a taxon of araneomorph spiders, termed "araneoids", treated as a superfamily. As with many such groups, its circumscription has varied; in particular some families that had at one time been moved to the Palpimanoidea have more recently been restored to Araneoidea. A 2014 treatment includes 18 families, with the araneoids making up about 26% of the total number of known spider species; a 2016 treatment includes essentially the same taxa, but now divided into 17 families.
==Taxonomy== Many of the differences in circumscription concern the relationship between Araneoidea and Palpimanoidea. In 1984, Raymond R. Forster and Norman I. Platnick proposed that some groups previously considered araneoid actually belonged in the distantly related Palpimanoidea, including the families Holarchaeidae, Micropholcommatidae, Mimetidae and Pararchaeidae. Subsequent phylogenetic studies have rejected this proposal, firmly placing these four families in Araneoidea (some included in other families).