Family: Desidae Pocock, 1895 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0039] Back

Gen. Austmusia Gray, 1983 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01898 ]
N.B.: transferred from the Amaurobiidae to the Amphinectidae by Davies, 1998a: 242 and to the Desidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 606.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2022-05-08
Described in
Gray, 1983b: 275 (type Austmusia wilsoni Gray, 1983; gender feminine)
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Species counts
Counts Status
3accepted
Reference

Gray, M. R. (1983b). A new genus of spiders of the subfamily Metaltellinae (Araneae, Amaurobioidea) from southeastern Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 106: 275-285. download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2017-11-14 Genus transferred to other family Wheeler et al., 2017 Austmusia Gray, 1983 transferred to Desidae