| Ground spiders Temporal range:
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| Callilepis nocturna, a ground spider found in the Palearctic realm | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892 |
| Diversity | |
| 164 genera, 2583 species | |
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Ground spiders comprise Gnaphosidae, the seventh largest spider family with over 2,000 described species in over 100 genera distributed worldwide. There are 105 species known to central Europe,[1] and common genera include Gnaphosa, Drassodes, Micaria, Cesonia, Zelotes and many others. They are closely related to Clubionidae.[2] At present, no ground spiders are known to be seriously venomous to humans.
- ^ Blick; et al. (2004). "Checklist of the spiders of Central Europe. (Arachnida: Araneae)" (PDF).
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Nieuwenhuys, Ed (2000). "Spiders of NW-Europe". Retrieved 2007-01-03.