Deinopoidea

Garden centre spider Uloborus plumipes, copyright Olaf Leillinger.

Belongs within: Neocribellatae.

The Deinopoidea are the cribellate orb-weaving spiders, including the net-casting spiders of the Deinopidae and the triangle-web spiders of the Uloboridae. Members of the Deinopidae have the posterior median eyes greatly enlarged and remarkably long and slender fore legs; they construct a small, expandable web that they hold between the fore legs and cast over prey. The Uloboridae have rows of long trichobothria on the femora, and the fourth metatarsi dorsally compressed and curved under a uniseriate calamistrum; they also lack venom glands (Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman 2007).

Synapomorphies (from Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman 2007): Tapeta absent; abdominal tubercles present; deinopoid tarsal comb present; numerous cylindrical gland spigots on posterior median and lateral spinnerets; resting position on web with anterior legs extended.

<==Deinopoidea BS09
    |  i. s.: Palaeouloborus lacasae Selden 1990 S93
    |--Deinopidae PVD10
    |    |--Avella P.-Cambridge 1877 JD-S07
    |    |--Avellopsis Purcell 1904 JD-S07
    |    |--Eodeinopes longipes Wunderlich 2017 W19
    |    |--Menneus Simon 1876 JD-S07
    |    |    `--M. camelus JD-S07
    |    `--Deinopis MacLeay 1839 PVD10
    |         |--D. bicornis B96
    |         |--D. kollari Doleschall 1859 D59
    |         |--D. ravidus B96
    |         |--D. spinosa Marx 1889 SC97
    |         `--D. subrufa (Koch 1879) PVD10
    `--Uloboridae [Uloboroidae, Uloboroidea] BS09
         |  i. s.: Philoponella E90
         |           |--P. congregabilis D95
         |           |--P. oweni WY88
         |           |--P. republican (Simon 1891) B11
         |           `--P. vicina E90
         |         Philoponus Thorell 1887 K92
         |           `--P. pinnipes (Thor. 1877) [=Uloborus pinnipes] K92
         |         Octonoba sybotides (Bösenberg & Strand 1906) GC99, B11
         |         Miagrammopinae [Miagrammopoidae] W76
         |           |--Miagrammopes Cambridge 1869 W76
         |           |    `--M. candata Koch & Keyserling 1890 KK90
         |           |--Miagrammopsidis Wunderlich 1976 W76
         |           |    `--*M. flavus Wunderlich 1976 W76
         |           `--Ranguma Lehtinen 1967 W76
         |                |--R. bradleyi (Pickard-Cambridge 1874) [=Miagrammopes bradleyi] W76
         |                `--R. lehtineni Wunderlich 1976 W76
         |         Tangaroinae JD-S07
         |         Conifaber guarani R14
         |         Androgeus P92
         |--+--Waitkera Opell 1979 BS09, PVD10
         |  |    `--*W. waitakerensis (Chamberlain 1946) PVD10
         |  `--Hyptiotes [Hyptiotinae] BS09
         |       |--H. cavatus E90
         |       |--H. gertschi BS09
         |       `--H. paradoxus E90
         `--Uloborus Latreille 1806 BS09, JD-S07 [Uloborinae]
              |--U. americanus B06
              |--U. diversus E90
              |--U. domesticus Doleschall 1859 D59
              |--U. geniculatus Olivier 1789 B06, Z02 [=Zosis geniculatus B96]
              |--U. glomosus (Walckenaer 1841) SC97
              |--U. pantherinus Koch & Keyserling 1890 KK90
              |--U. plumipes Lucas 1846 E12
              |--U. spinitarsis Koch & Keyserling 1887 KK90
              |--U. trilineatus E90
              |--U. variabilis Koch & Keyserling 1887 KK90
              `--U. walckenaerius E95 [=Theridion (Uloborus) walkenarium G20]

*Type species of generic name indicated

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Last updated: 17 January 2022.