Editing Araneomorphae (section)

{{short description|Infraorder of arachnids}}

{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Triassic|present}}
| name = Araneomorph spiders
| image = Nephila inaurata1.JPG
| image_caption = ''[[Nephila inaurata]]'' ([[Nephilidae]])
| taxon = Araneomorphae
| authority = 
| diversity_link = Spider families
| diversity = 95 families
| subdivision_ranks = Subdivisions
| subdivision_ref = 
| subdivision = *[[Filistatidae]]
*[[Hypochilidae]]
*[[Synspermiata]] (17 families)
*[[Leptonetidae]]
*[[Austrochiloidea]] (2 families)
*[[Palpimanoidea]] (5 families)
*[[Entelegynae]] (68 families)
}}

The '''Araneomorphae''' (also called the '''Labidognatha''' or "'''true spiders'''"<ref name="Coddington2005PhylogenyOfSpiders">{{cite book |author=Coddington, J.A. |title=Spiders of North America: an identification manual |publisher=[[American Arachnological Society]] |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-9771439-0-0 |editor=Ubick, D. |pages=18–24 |chapter=Phylogeny and Classification of Spiders |access-date=12 October 2008 |editor2=Paquin, P. |editor3=Cushing, P.E. |editor4=Roth, V. |chapter-url=http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/bitstream/10088/4365/1/CoddingtonSNAPhylogeny05.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209110443/http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/bitstream/10088/4365/1/CoddingtonSNAPhylogeny05.pdf |archive-date=9 December 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>) are an [[infraorder]] of [[spider]]s. They are distinguishable by [[chelicerae]] (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the [[Mygalomorphae]] (tarantulas and their close kin), where they point straight down. Araneomorphs comprise the vast majority (about 93%<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bern |first=Natural History Museum |title=NMBE - World Spider Catalog |url=http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/INTRO1.html |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=research.amnh.org |language=en}}</ref>) of living spiders.