Velvet spiders (family Eresidae) are a small group (about 100 species in 9 genera) of spiders almost entirely limited to the Old World, with the exception...

Eresus, also called ladybird spiders, is a genus of velvet spiders (family Eresidae) that was first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1805. Members...

and phylogenetic analysis of central European Eresus species (Araneae: Eresidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 37 (3): 263–287. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00328...

Eresus kollari, the ladybird spider, is a spider species in the family Eresidae. It was first described by Walckenaer in 1802, though it was misidentified...

This page lists all described species of the spider family Eresidae accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of January 2021[update]: Adonea Simon, 1873...

known as the African social spider, is a species of spider of the family Eresidae, or the velvet spider family. It is native to Central and southern Africa...

Eresus moravicus is a spider species in the family Eresidae found in Austria, Hungary, Czechia, Serbia, Slovakia , and Albania. Being found mainly in rocky...

Indian cooperative spider, is a species of velvet spider of the family Eresidae. It is native to India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Myanmar. This spider is a...

Deinopidae (net-casting spiders) Desidae (intertidal spiders) Dictynidae Eresidae (velvet spiders) Gallieniellidae Gnaphosidae (flat-bellied ground spiders)...

Marhabaie, Mohammad (May 18, 2012). "The velvet spiders: an atlas of the Eresidae (Arachnida, Araneae)". ZooKeys (195): 1–144. Bibcode:2012ZooK..195....1M...