| Lynx spiders Temporal range:
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| Striped lynx spider (Oxyopes salticus), male | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Oxyopidae Thorell, 1869 |
| Diversity | |
| 9 genera, 521 species | |
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Lynx spider (Oxyopidae) is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1870.[1] Most species make little use of webs, instead spending their lives as hunting spiders on plants. Many species frequent flowers in particular, ambushing pollinators, much as crab spiders do. They tend to tolerate members of their own species more than most spiders do, and at least one species has been identified as exhibiting social behaviour.[2]
- ^ Thorell, T. (1870). "On European spiders". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 3 (7): 109–242.
- ^ Leticia Aviles (1994). "Social behaviour in a web-building lynx spider, Tapinillus sp. (Araneae: Oxyopidae)" (PDF). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 51 (2): 163–176. Bibcode:1994BJLS...52..163A. doi:10.1006/bijl.1994.1045. Retrieved 2022-03-23.