Authors
Ward C Wheeler, Jonathan A Coddington, Louise M Crowley, Dimitar Dimitrov, Pablo A Goloboff, Charles E Griswold, Gustavo Hormiga, Lorenzo Prendini, Martín J Ramírez, Petra Sierwald, Lina Almeida‐Silva, Fernando Alvarez‐Padilla, Miquel A Arnedo, Ligia R Benavides Silva, Suresh P Benjamin, Jason E Bond, Cristian J Grismado, Emile Hasan, Marshal Hedin, Matías A Izquierdo, Facundo M Labarque, Joel Ledford, Lara Lopardo, Wayne P Maddison, Jeremy A Miller, Luis N Piacentini, Norman I Platnick, Daniele Polotow, Diana Silva‐Dávila, Nikolaj Scharff, Tamás Szűts, Darrell Ubick, Cor J Vink, Hannah M Wood, Junxia Zhang
Publication date
2017/12
Journal
Cladistics
Volume
33
Issue
6
Pages
574-616
Description
We present a phylogenetic analysis of spiders using a dataset of 932 spider species, representing 115 families (only the family Synaphridae is unrepresented), 700 known genera, and additional representatives of 26 unidentified or undescribed genera. Eleven genera of the orders Amblypygi, Palpigradi, Schizomida and Uropygi are included as outgroups. The dataset includes six markers from the mitochondrial (12S, 16S, COI) and nuclear (histone H3, 18S, 28S) genomes, and was analysed by multiple methods, including constrained analyses using a highly supported backbone tree from transcriptomic data. We recover most of the higher‐level structure of the spider tree with good support, including Mesothelae, Opisthothelae, Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae. Several of our analyses recover Hypochilidae and Filistatidae as sister groups, as suggested by previous transcriptomic analyses. The Synspermiata …
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