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UP CLOSE WITH SPIDERS – SPIDER FAMILIES Spider Families The World Spider Catalog compiled by Norman I. Platnick lists 106 spider families. In the table below, the sixty-nine families which occur in South-east Asia are shown in bold type. Eleven of these sixty-nine are shown in green, and there are photos in this website “representing” these eleven families.
1. Liphistidae 2. Atypidae 3. Antrodiaetidae 4. Mecicobothriidae 5. Hexathelidae 6. Dipluridae 7. Cyrtaucheniidae 8. Ctenizidae 9. Idiopidae 10. Actinopidae 11. Migidae 12. Nemesiidae 13. Microstigmatidae 14. Barychelidae 15. Theraphosidae 16. Paratropididae 17. Hypochilidae 18. Austrochilidae 19. Gradungulidae 20. Filistatidae 21. Sicariidae 22. Scytodidae 23. Periegopidae 24. Drymusidae 25. Leptonetidae 26. Telemidae 27. Ochyroceratidae 28. Pholcidae 29. Plectreuridae 30. Diguetidae 31. Caponiidae 32. Tetrablemmidae 33. Segestriidae 34. Dysderidae 35. Oonopidae 36. Orsolobidae	37. Archaeidae 38. Mecysmaucheniidae 39. Parachaeidae 40. Holarchaeidae 41. Micropholcommatidae 42. Huttoniidae 43. Stenochilidae 44. Palpimanidae 45. Malkaridae 46. Mimetidae 47. Eresidae 48. Oecobiidae 49. Hersiliidae 50. Deinopidae 51. Uloboridae 52. Cyatholipidae 53. Synotaxidae 54. Nesticidae 55. Theridiidae 56. Theridiosomatidae 57. Symphtognathidae 58. Anapidae 59. Mysmenidae 60. Pimoidae 61. Linyphiidae 62. Tetragnathidae 63. Araneidae 64. Lycosidae 65. Trechaleidae 66. Pisauridae 67. Oxyopidae 68. Senoculidae 69. Stiphidiidae 70. Neolanidae 71. Psechridae 72. Zoropsidae	73. Ctenidae 74. Agelenidae 75. Cybaeidae 76. Desidae 77. Halidae 78. Amphinectidae 79. Cycloctenidae 80. Hahniidae 81. Dictynidae 82. Amaurobiidae 83. Titanoecidae 84. Nicodamidae* 85. Tengellidae 86. Miturgidae 87. Anyphenidae 88. Liocranidae 89. Clubionidae 90. Corinnidae 91. Zodariidae 92. Cryptothelidae 93. Homalonychidae 94. Ammoxenidae 95. Cithaeronidae 96. Gallieniellidae 97. Trochanteriidae 98. Lamponidae 99. Prodidomidae 100. Gnaphosidae 101. Zoridae 102. Selenopidae 103. Heteropodidae 104. Philodromidae 105. Thomisidae 106. Salticidae
* Although Nicodamidae is listed as one of the sixty-nine South-east Asian families, the type localities of the two species of this family are in Australia – An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia, Frances and John Murphy.