Family: Euagridae Raven, 1979 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0135]
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N.B.: described as the tribe Evagrini [sic] by Raven, 1979: 635, elevated to the subfamily Euagrinae by Raven, 1985a: 78 and elevated to family level by Opatova et al., 2020: 697, containing two subfamilies: Euagrinae (with the genera Euagrus, Caledothele, Chilehexops, Leptothele, Phyxioschema and Vilchura) and Australothelinae Bond, Opatova & Hedin, 2020 (in Opatova et al., 2020: 698) (new subfamily, with the genera Australothele, Allothele, Carrai, Cethegus, Namirea and Stenygrocercus); the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 487, f. 5.
Status: accepted
Last updated: 2022-06-27
Described in
Raven, 1979: 635
Counts
Number of valid genera: 14
Number of valid species: 87
Reference

Raven, R. J. (1979). Systematics of the mygalomorph spider genus Masteria (Masteriinae: Dipluridae: Arachnida). Australian Journal of Zoology 27(4): 623-636. doi:10.1071/ZO9790623 download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2020-06-18 New family inserted Raven, 1979 n/a