Phylogney of Cannibalistic Spiders

arachnida

The Arachnida family includes other species, aside spiders, who perform sexual cannibalism, including scorpions.

 

aranae

Most species of spiders are members of the Araneae family.morphae

In the majority of papers that have informed this website, studies were done on spiders of the Araneomorphae family, although there are cases of sexual cannibalism throughout the other branches of Araneae.

entelegynae

The orb-web spider A. keyserlingi pictured in the "female choice" model are within the Orbiculariae clade, while the M. vatia (Economic model) are members of Dionycha.

All phylogenetic trees pictured above courtesy of Tree of Life Web Project (tolweb.org).