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Oxyopidae

Description

Lynx spider (Oxyopidae) is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1870. Most species make little use of webs, instead spending their lives as hunting spiders on plants. Many species frequent flowers in particular, ambushing pollinators, much as crab spiders do. They tend to tolerate members of their own species more than most spiders do, and at least one species has been identified as exhibiting social behaviour.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)5636https://www.gbif.org/species/5636
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)268751https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=268751
Rankfamily
Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Arachnida : Araneae : Oxyopidae
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Ecdysozoa
-Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
-EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
-ProsomapodaLamsdell 2013
classXiphosura
orderXiphosuridaLatreille 1802
-PlanatergaLamsdell 2013
-DekatriataLamsdell 2013
-SclerophorataKamenz et al. 2011
classArachnidaLamarck 1801
-PantetrapulmonataShultz 2007
subclassTetrapulmonataSchultz 1990
-SerikodiastidaGarwood and Dunlop 2014
orderAraneaeClerck 1757
suborderOpisthothelaePocock 1892
infraorderAraneomorphaeSmith 1902
-EntelegynaeSimon 1893
superfamilyLycosoideaSundevall 1833
familyOxyopidaeThorell 1870
Scientific NameOxyopidae
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Oxyopidaefamilybelongs to Lycosoideastated with evidenceDunlop et al., 2013
Status (PBDB)extant
Taxon Size (PBDB)6
Extant Size (PBDB)2 (33%)
First Recorded Appearance38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene
Environmentterrestrial (based on Arachnida)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Arachnida)
Visionlimited (based on Xiphosurida)
Dietcarnivore (based on Xiphosura)
Taphonomychitin (based on Arachnida)
Primary Reference (PBDB)J. A. Dunlop, D. Penney, and D. Jekel. 2013. A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives. In N. Platnick (ed.), The World Spider Catalog, version 14.0. American Museum of Natural History
Common Name(s) Lospindlar, Lynx Spiders
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyopidae

External Images

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Hamadruas
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Hamataliwa
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Hostus
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Oxyopes
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
438.0 Ma
Eocene
0 Ma
Extant
Peucetia
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Planoxyopes
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
123.0 Ma
Miocene
23.0 Ma
Miocene
Pseudohostus
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Schaenicoscelis
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Tapinillus
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Tapponia
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1870Oxyopidae Thorell
2013Oxyopidae Dunlop et al. p. 164
2017Oxyopidae Wheeler et al.

References

Dunlop J. A., Penney D., et al (2013) A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives, The World Spider Catalog, version 14.0. American Museum of Natural History
Wheeler W. C., Coddington J. A., et al (2017) The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling, Cladistics 33, 574-616
Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, Ragnar, Hallingbäck, Tomas, Hansson, Hans G. & Hedström, Lars (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska djurfamiljer). - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Breene, R. G., D. Allen Dean, G. B. Edwards, Blain Hebert, Herbert W. Levi, Gail Manning, et al., 2003: null. Common Names of Arachnids, Fifth Edition. 42. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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