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Wolf Spiders and Allies
Lycosoidea
Lycosoidea is a clade or superfamily of araneomorph spiders. The traditional circumscription was based on a feature of the eyes. The tapetum is a reflective layer at the back of the eye, thought to increase sensitivity in low light levels. Lycosoids were then defined by having a "grate-shaped" tapetum. Research from the late 1990s onwards suggests that this feature has evolved more than once, possibly as many as five times, so that the original Lycosoidea is...
11 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first
Wolf Spiders
familyLycosidae
Lynx Spiders
familyOxyopidae
Dolomedidae
familyDolomedidae
Nursery Web Spiders
familyPisauridae
False Wolf Spiders
familyZoropsidae
Wandering Spiders
familyCtenidae
trechaleid spiders
familyTrechaleidae
Ancylometidae
familyAncylometidae
Lace Sheet-weavers
familyPsechridae
Bark Hunters
familySenoculidae
Crack-leg Spiders
familyUdubidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 367161.