Polotow, Daniele;Griswold, Charles
Zoropsidae
Sign in to saveZoropsidae, also known as false wolf spiders for their physical similarity to wolf spiders, is a family of cribellate araneomorph spiders first described by Philipp Bertkau in 1882. They can be distinguished from wolf spiders by their two rows of eyes that are more equal in size than those of Lycosidae.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyZoropsidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 337
- Family
- Zoropsidae
- Collections
- FMNH, QM
- Recorded in
- Madagascar, MéXico, Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Lycosoidea
- Image
- Zoropsis spinimana.jpg
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- Commons category
- Zoropsidae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon name
- Zoropsidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Zoropsidae
- taxon common name
- 정선거미과
- taxonomic type
- Zoropsis
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Zoropsidae, also known as false wolf spiders for their physical similarity to wolf spiders, is a family of cribellate araneomorph spiders first described by Philipp Bertkau in 1882. They can be distinguished from wolf spiders by their two rows of eyes that are more equal in size than those of Lycosidae.
The families Tengellidae and Zorocratidae are now included in Zoropsidae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zoropsidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.