English: Tangle-web spiders; Cobweb spiders; Comb-footed spiders.
Clades:
Araneae;
Arachnida;
Arthropoda;
Animals.
Members: 3000 species; 124 genera; most common arthropod.
Use: venom and its clinical manifestation; study of spider silk, sexual biology, sexual cannibalism.
ZoologySpiders; araneomorph; both entelegyne, meaning that the females have a genital plate, and ecribellate, meaning that they spin sticky capture silk instead of woolly silk; with a comb of serrated bristles (setae) on the tarsus of the fourth leg.