Scytodoidea

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| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Cretaceous|present}}

| taxon = Scytodoidea

| image =Scytodes thoracica (aka).jpg

| image_caption = Scytodes thoracica, Scytodidae

| authority = Blackwall, 1864

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision = See text.

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Scytodoidea is a taxon of araneomorph spiders, at the rank of superfamily. It contains four families:

Phylogeny

The monophyly of the group has been confirmed in morphological studies. One hypothesis for the relationships of the four families is shown in the following cladogram:

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|label1=Scytodoidea

|1={{clade

|1=Sicariidae

|2={{clade

|1=Scytodidae

|2={{clade

|1=Periegopidae

|2=Drymusidae

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Earlier studies agree in placing the Sicariidae as the most basal family, but reverse the positions of Drymusidae and Scytodidae. Scytodoidea is placed within the haplogyne clade of araneomorph spiders, as one of the more derived clades.

References

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{{Citation |last=Coddington |first=Jonathan A. |year=2005 |editor-last=Ubick |editor-first=D. |editor2-last=Paquin |editor2-first=P. |editor3-last=Cushing |editor3-first=P.E. |editor4-last=Roth |editor4-first=V. |contribution=Phylogeny and classification of spiders |title=Spiders of North America: an identification manual |pages=18–24 |publisher=American Arachnological Society |access-date=2015-09-24 |contribution-url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/4365/CoddingtonSNAPhylogeny05.pdf |name-list-style=amp }}

{{Citation |last1=Dunlop |first1=Jason A. |last2=Penney |first2=David |year=2011 |editor-last=Zhang |editor-first=Z.-Q. |contribution=Order Araneae Clerck, 1757 |title=Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness |series=Zootaxa |number=3148 |location=Auckland, New Zealand |publisher=Magnolia Press |isbn=978-1-86977-850-7 |access-date=2015-10-31 |contribution-url=http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt03148p153.pdf |name-list-style=amp }}

{{Citation |last1=Labarque |first1=Facundo M. |last2=Ramirez |first2=Martin J. |date=2012 |title=The placement of the spider genus Periegops and the phylogeny of Scytodoidea (Araneae: Araneomorphae) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=3312 |pages=1–44 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3312.1.1 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258011315 |access-date=2015-10-30 |name-list-style=amp |hdl=11336/67869 |hdl-access=free }}

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Category:Arachnid superfamilies