Checklist for Superfamily Araneoidea Latreille, 1806
and region Cape Town (Western Cape)
List of families for Cape Town
4 Families width 16 Species
Genera for Cape Town
18 Genera with 16 Species | Arachnura Vinson, 1863 | Tailed spider | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Araneus Clerck, 1859 | Angulate & roundshouldered orbweavers | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Argiope Audouin, 1805 | Garden orbweavers | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Caerostris Thorell, 1902 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Cyrtophora Simon, 1775 | Tent spiders | 1 | Species | Taxom | Dipoena Thorell, 1869 | | 0 | Species | Taxom | | Enoplognatha Pavesi, 1904 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Erigonops Scharff, 1915 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Eustala Simon, 1898 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | Gasteracantha Sundevall, 1833 | Spiny Backed Orb Weaver | 0 | Species | Taxom | | Gmogala Keyserling, 1890 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Latrodectus Walckenaer, 1904 | Black widow spider | 3 | Species | Taxom | Leucauge White, 1841 | Orchard Spider And Allies | 0 | Species | Taxom | Nemoscolus Simon, 1895 | | 0 | Species | Taxom | | Neoscona Simon, 1858 | Spotted orbweavers | 1 | Species | Taxom | Nephila Leach, 1815 | Banana spiders | 0 | Species | Taxom | | Pycnacantha Blackwall, 1781 | | 1 | Species | Taxom | | Steatoda Sundevall, 1904 | False black widows | 2 | Species | Taxom |
Species list for Cape Town
16 Species | Arachnura scorpionoides Vinson, 1863 | | | Araneus balanus Doleschall, 1859 | | | Argiope australis Charles Atha..., 1805 | | | Caerostris corticosa Pocock, 1902 | | | Cyrtophora citricola Forsskål, 1775 | Global tentweb weaver | | Enoplognatha molesta Octavius Pic..., 1904 | | | Erigonops littoralis J. Hewitt, 1915 | | | Eustala scutigera Octavius Pic..., 1898 | Orb weavers | | Gmogala scarabaeus Eugen von Ke..., 1890 | | | Latrodectus cinctus (Blackwall, 1865) | ⇒ Latrodectus hasseltii Thorell, 1870 | | Latrodectus geometricus C. L. Koch, 1841 | Brown black widow | | Latrodectus indistinctus O. P.-Cambridge, 1904 | | | Neoscona rufipalpis Hippolyte Lucas, 1858 | | | Pycnacantha tribulus Johan Christ..., 1781 | | | Steatoda capensis Hann, 1990 | Black cobweb | | Steatoda connexa Octavius Pic..., 1904 | |
Subnodes of Araneoidea with occurrences in Cape Town | Family | Araneidae
Simon, 1895
Golden orb web spiders, Indet. Spider, Nephila web spiders, Orb Weaver Spiders, Orb weavers, Orb-weaver spider, Orb-weaver spiders, Orb-weavers, Orb-Weaving Spider, Orbweavers, Typical Orb Weavers, Typical orb-weaver spiders | 10
8 | Genera
Species |
Taxom
| | Family | Linyphiidae
Blackwall, 1859
Dwarf spiders, Dwarf weavers, Lattice web spiders, Line Weavers, Line Weaving Spiders, Line-Weaving Spiders, Money Spider/Sheet Weaver, Money Spiders, Sheet weavers, Sheet web spider, Sheet-Web Spinners, Sheet-Web Weavers, Sheetweb And Dwarf Weavers, Sheetweb weavers | 1
1 | Genus
Species |
Taxom
| | Family | Tetragnathidae
Menge, 1866
Elongated Orb Weavers, Four-Jawed Spiders, Horizontal Orb-Web Weavers, Large-Jawed Orb Weavers, Long jawed orb-weavers, Long jawed spiders, Long-jawed orb weavers, Long-Jawed Orbweavers, Long-Jawed Spiders, Longjawed Orb Weavers, Longjawed orbweavers, Stretch spider, Thick-Jawed Spiders | 2
0 | Genera
Species |
Taxom
| | Family | Theridiidae
Sundevall, 1833
Cobweb And Widow Spiders, cobweb spider, Cobweb spiders, Cobweb weavers, Comb-footed spiders, Combfooted Spiders, Scaffold web spider, Scaffolding-Web Spiders, Tangle-web spiders, Theridiids | 5
7 | Genera
Species |
Taxom
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