''Euagridae'' is a family of
mygalomorph
The Mygalomorphae, or mygalomorphs, are an infraorder of spiders, and comprise one of three major groups of living spiders with over 3000 species, found on all continents except Antarctica. Many members are known as trapdoor spiders due to the ...
spiders. The group was first described as a tribe in 1979 by
Robert Raven
Robert John Raven is an Australian arachnologist, being the Head of Terrestrial Biodiversity and the Senior Curator (Arachnida) at the Queensland Museum. Dr Raven has described many species of spider in Australia and elsewhere, and is spider bit ...
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[ who in 1985 elevated it to a subfamily.][ In 2020, Optova et al. elevated it further to a family.][
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Genera
, the World Spider Catalog
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of ...
accepted the following genera:[
*'']Allothele
''Allothele'' is a genus of African spiders in the family Euagridae. It was first described by R. W. E. Tucker in 1920.
Species
it contains five species:
*'' Allothele australis'' (Purcell
Henry Purcell (, rare: September 1659 – 21 N ...
'' Tucker, 1920
*'' Australothele'' Raven, 1984
*'' Caledothele'' Raven, 1991
*'' Carrai'' Raven, 1984
*'' Cethegus'' Thorell, 1881
*'' Chilehexops'' Coyle, 1986
*'' Euagrus'' Ausserer, 1875
*'' Leptothele'' Raven & Schwendinger, 1995
*'' Malayathele'' Schwendinger, 2020
*'' Namirea'' Raven, 1984
*'' Phyxioschema'' Simon, 1889
*'' Stenygrocercus'' Simon, 1892
*'' Vilchura'' Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2017
References
Mygalomorphae families
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