''Euagridae'' is a family of
mygalomorph 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 over 450 species of spider in Australia and elsewhere, and is spider ...
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[ who in 1985 elevated it to a subfamily.][ In 2020, Opatova 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'' Tucker, 1920
*'' Australothele'' Raven, 1984
*'' Caledothele'' Raven, 1991
*'' Carrai'' Raven, 1984
*'' Cethegus'' Thorell, 1881
*'' Chilehexops'' Coyle, 1986
*'' Euagrus'' Ausserer, 1875
*'']Leptothele
''Leptothele'' is a genus of Southeast Asian spiders in the family Euagridae first described by Robert Raven and Peter J. Schwendinger in 1995. It is native to the Malay Peninsula
The Malay Peninsula is located in Mainland Southeast Asia ...
'' 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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