)?
Use of
the identification tables:
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each sentence (after reading the sentence of course); you automatically
end up by the choosen number and finally by the (probable) correct Spider
family. So click and go...
CHELICERA STRAIGHT JAWED()?
ATYPIDAE (Purseweb Spiders
)
Click over here for GROUP 1 IDENTIFICATION
CRIBELLUM PRESENT (
)?
YES
NO
Click over here for GROUP 2 IDENTIFICATION
Click over here for GROUP 4 IDENTIFICATION
Click over here for GROEP 3 IDENTIFICATION
GROUP 1 - HAPLOGYNE SPIDERS/SIX-EYED SPIDERS
BIG ANIMALS(TILL 22mm) AND FORM OF BODY LIKE (
)
THE EYES ARE OBVIOUSLY ARRANGED IN THREE
GROUPS OF TWO(
)
SEGESTRIIDAE (())
DYSDERIDAE ((
))
BOTH BODY-PARTS ALMOST EQUALLY BIG AND ROUNDED. BODY COLOUR BEIGE WITH BLACK STRIPES
SCYTODIDAE (Spitting Spiders(
))
SMALL NIGHT ANIMALS HIDING THEMSELVES DURING DAY-TIME IN SMALL SILKEN CELLS
OONOPIDAE (Dwarf Sixeyed Spiders(
))
THE SPIDER BUILTS AN ORB-WEB OR A SECTOR OF IT. BODY AS SHOWN IN
drawing 14 (
)
ULOBORIDAE (Hackled Orbweavers())
OUTLOOK OF THE BODY AS SHOWN IN drawing 15,
MALES WITH RED ABDOMEN WITH BLACK SPOTS.
ERESIDAE (())
BIG ANIMALS WITH A PART OF THE HEAD THAT IS
MORE DARK THEN THE REMAINDER OF THE CEPHALOTHORAX (
)
CALAMISTRUM ON LEG IV CONSISTS OF TWO ROWS
INSTEAD OF ONE ()
AMAUROBIIDAE (Hackledmesh Weavers())
SMALL SPIDERS MAKING SMALL WEBS. HAIR GROWTH OF THE ABDOMEN FEELS VELVETY
DICTYNIDAE (Meshweb Weavers(
))
GROUP 3 - HUNTERS (Two tarsus-claws and a very small third tarsus-claw)
BODY LIKE drawing 18, EYES MORE OR LES LIKE drawing 19 (
, 
)
SALTICIDAE (Jumping Spiders())
BODY LIKE drawing 20 OR 22 (
,
)
BODY LIKE drawing 20, POSITION OF THE EYES LIKE
drawing 21 ((,
)
THOMISIDAE (Crab Spiders ())
PHILODROMIDAE (Running Crab Spiders(,
))
OXYOPIDAE (Lynx Spiders(
))
OBVIOUS DRAWING ON THE ABDOMEN AS IN
drawing 30 (
)
ANYPHAENIDAE (Ghost Spiders(
))
THE SPINNERS STICK OUT OF THE BODY LIKE TAILS
THE SPINNERS ARE OBVIOUS BASAL FROM EACH OTHER
GNAPHOSIDAE ( Ground Spiders(
)
BIG, STURDY ANIMALS WITH LONG LEGS, LIVING IN LOW BUSHES AND GRASS
HETEROPODIDAE (Giant Crab Spiders(
))
PISAURIDAE (Nursery Web Spiders - Position
of the eyes
(
))
FAST ANIMALS WITH A STEEP CEPHALOTHORAX
POSITION OF THE EYES AS IN drawing 34 (
)
LYCOSIDAE (Wolf Spiders(
)
ZORIDAE (Position of the eyes
(
))
SPIDERS WITH ENLARGED, RECEDING
CHELICERA - POSITION OF THE EYES AS IN drawing 32 (
)
GENUS PACHYGNATHA ((
))
SMALL SPIDERS (till 5mm) WITH SLENDERLEGS
FIRST PAIR OF LEGS VERY LONG, HUNT IN WEBS OF OTHER SPIDERS ON SPIDERS
MIMETIDAE (Pirate Spiders(
))
ZODARIIDAE ((
))
GROEP 4 - WEAVERS (Three tarsusclaws)
THE SPIDER BUILTS AN ORB-WEB
ABDOMEN MUCH BIGGER THEN CEPHALOTHORAX. legS HAVE LOTS OF SPINES...
ARANEIDAE (Orbweavers(
))
CHELICERA VERY BIG, LONG AND EQUIPPED WITH PROTRUSIONS
TETRAGNATHIDAE (Longjawed Orbweavers(
))
METIDAE ( 
)
THE CEPHALOTHORAX IS PEAR-SHAPED
SPINNERS POSITIONED NEXT TO EACH OTHER
(
)
HAHNIDAE (
)
ARGYRONETHIDAE (Water Spiders (
))
AGELENIDAE (Funnel Weavers(
))
PHOLCIDAE ( Cellar or Daddylongleg spiders
)
THE SPIDER HAS A MORE OR LESS SPHERICAL ABDOMEN, LEGS NOT OR ALMOST NOT SPINED
SPIDER LIGHT BROWN OF COLOUR, THE FIRST PAIR OF LEGS VERY LONG
NESTICIDAE (Cave Cobweb Spiders
)
THERIDIIDAE (Comb-footed Spiders or
Cobweb Weavers(
))
BIG ANIMALS WITH OBVIOUS SPINED LEGS. HANG
UPSIDE DOWN ON A HAMMOCK-WEB (
)
LINYPHIIDAE (Sheetweb Weavers or Money
Spiders (
))
VERY SMALL ANIMALS (3mm) OF WHICH THE OUTLOOK OF THE CEPHALOTHORAX CAN HAVE STRANGE APPEARANCES
ERIGONIDAE (Dwarf Weavers(
))
))
)
)