Editing Long-jawed orb weaver (section)

{{Short description|Family of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Cretaceous|present}}
| name = Long-jawed orb-weavers
| image = Metellina mengei (aka).jpg
| image_upright = 1.15
| image_caption = ''[[Metellina mengei]]''
| image2 = Long-jawed orb-weaver spider (Tetragnatha montana) female.jpg
| image2_caption = ''[[Tetragnatha montana]]'', female
| taxon = Tetragnathidae
| authority = [[Anton Menge|Menge]], 1866
| range_map = Distribution.tetragnathidae.1.png
| range_map_upright = 1.15
| diversity = [[#Genera|50 genera]], [[List of Tetragnathidae species|989 species]]
}}

'''Long-jawed orb weavers''' or '''long jawed spiders''' ('''Tetragnathidae''') are a family of [[Araneomorphae|araneomorph]] [[spider]]s first described by [[Anton Menge]] in 1866.<ref>{{cite journal| last=Menge| first=Anton| year=1866| title=Preussische Spinnen. Erste Abtheilung| journal=Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (N.F.)| volume=1}}</ref> They have elongated bodies, legs, and [[chelicerae]], and build small orb webs with an open hub with few, wide-set radii and spirals with no signal line or retreat. Some species are often found in long [[vegetation]] near water.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gould |first1=John |last2=García |first2=Luis Fernando |last3=Valdez |first3=Jose. W. |title=Water webbing: Long‐jawed spider (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) produces webs that touch the surface of ephemeral waterbodies |journal=Ethology |date=March 2023 |volume=129 |issue=3 |pages=182–185 |doi=10.1111/eth.13355 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/eth.13355|doi-access=free }}</ref>