Kingdom Animalia Subphylum Chelicerata Order Araneae | Phylum Arthropoda Class Arachnida Infraorder Araneomorphae | |
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Similar Dionycha, Entelegynae, Lycosoidea, Haplogynae, Palpimanoidea | ||
The RTA clade is a clade of araneomorph spiders, united by the possession of a retrolateral tibial apophysis – a backward-facing projection on the tibia of the male pedipalp. The clade contains over 21,000 species, almost half the current total of about 46,000 known species of spider. Most of the members of the clade are wanderers and do not build webs.
Families
In 2005, Coddington included 39 families in a cladogram showing the RTA clade:
References
RTA clade Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA