Research in the Hormiga laboratory focuses on the systematics and evolutionary biology of spiders, with emphasis on orbweavers and their close relatives (Araneoidea). Most of our systematic work at the species level addresses three spider lineages: the sheet weaving families Linyphiidae and Pimoidae and the orb weaving families Tetragnathidae and Mysmenidae. Our research focuses both on phylogenetic reconstruction and taxonomic work.