Family: Amaurobiidae Thorell, 1869 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0043]
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N.B.: see note under Agelenidae regarding the placement of Coelotinae; transfer of the former members of Neolanidae (now part of Stiphidiidae) to the Amaurobiidae by Murphy & Roberts, 2015: ix not sufficiently justified and is not accepted here; after Wheeler et al., 2017: 605 Amaurobiidae include Altellopsinae Lehtinen, 1967, Amaurobiinae, Arctobiinae Leech, 1972, Macrobuninae (incl. Chummidae, Malenellinae [transferred from the Anyphaenidae, genus Malenella] and and Tasmarubriinae [transferred from the Amphinectidae, genera Tasmarubrius, Tasmabrochus and Teeatta]) and Ovtchinnikoviinae Marusik, Kovblyuk, & Ponomarev, 2010; Pakeha and Paravoca transferred from the Amaurobiidae to the Cycloctenidae and Bakala, Manjala and Poaka from the Amaurobiidae to the Desidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 606; Macrobuninae elevated to family by Gorneau et al., 2023: 10; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 515, f. 15-16.
Status: accepted
Last updated: 2024-03-05
Described in
Thorell, 1869: 45
Counts
Number of valid genera: 26
Number of valid species: 204
Reference

Thorell, T. (1869). On European spiders. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature [first part]. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis (3) 7(I, 5): 1-108. [incl. pp. 109-242 from 1870] download pdf

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2017-11-11 Family updated New status (Old value)