{{Short description|Superfamily of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Cretaceous|present}} | taxon = Scytodoidea | image =Scytodes thoracica (aka).jpg | image_caption = <small>''Scytodes thoracica'', Scytodidae</small> | authority = Blackwall, 1864<ref name=DunlPenn11/> | subdivision_ranks = Families | subdivision = See text. }}
'''Scytodoidea''' is a taxon of araneomorph spiders, at the rank of superfamily. It contains four families:<ref name=DunlPenn11/> * Drymusidae * Periegopidae * Scytodidae * Sicariidae
==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:<ref name=LabaRami12/>
{{clade |style=line-height:100% |label1=Scytodoidea |1={{clade |1=Sicariidae |2={{clade |1=Scytodidae |2={{clade |1=Periegopidae |2=Drymusidae }} }} }} }}
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.<ref name=Codd05/>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=Codd05>{{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 }}</ref>
<ref name=DunlPenn11>{{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 }}</ref>
<ref name=LabaRami12>{{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 }}</ref> }}
{{Araneae}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q54911}}
Category:Scytodoidea Category:Arachnid superfamilies