Meanings
plural amaurobioids
- biologyAny spider of the superfamily Amaurobioidea.
Amaurobioids are characterized by slender unbranched tracheal tubes, while dictynoids should have at least the median tracheae strongly branched.
2001, Diana Silva, A phylogenetic approach to the classification and diversity of ctenid spiders (Araneae : Ctenidae) with a taxonomic revision of the Malagasy genera
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