A pictorial key of some families of true spider (Araneomorphae)‎ recovered in the western region of Saudi Arabia

Abstract EN

This survey that has been conducted in natural and managed ecosystems in the Western region of Saudi Arabia, showed that representatives of eleven families belonging to four superfamilies have been recovered.

All of them belong to the true spiders suborder Araneomorphae.

This collection is described as a diversified one, since it contains spiders belonging to two major groups; the first, the aerial web spinners, including the primitive line weavers and sheet weavers, the comb-footed spiders, and the orb spiders, and the second including the hunting spiders including the wolf, jumping crab, running, funnel-web spiders and the primitive hunters and weavers.