Cataxia

Cataxia is a genus of Australian armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by W. J. Rainbow in 1914.[3]

Cataxia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Cataxia
Rainbow, 1914[1]
Type species
C. maculata
Rainbow, 1914
Species

15, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Homogona Rainbow, 1914[2]
  • Neohomogona Main, 1985[2]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains fifteen species:[1]

  • Cataxia babindaensis Main, 1969 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Cataxia barrettae Rix, Bain, Main & Harvey, 2017 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Cataxia bolganupensis (Main, 1985) – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Cataxia colesi Rix, Bain, Main & Harvey, 2017 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Cataxia cunicularis (Main, 1983) – Australia (Queensland)
  • Cataxia dietrichae Main, 1985 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Cataxia eungellaensis Main, 1969 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Cataxia maculata Rainbow, 1914 (type) – Australia (Queensland)
  • Cataxia melindae Rix, Bain, Main & Harvey, 2017 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Cataxia pallida (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918) – Australia (Queensland)
  • Cataxia pulleinei (Rainbow, 1914) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
  • Cataxia sandsorum Rix, Bain, Main & Harvey, 2017 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Cataxia spinipectoris Main, 1969 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Cataxia stirlingi (Main, 1985) – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Cataxia victoriae (Main, 1985) – Australia (Victoria)

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Cataxia Rainbow, 1914". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  2. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 154.
  3. Rainbow, W. J. (1914). "Studies in the Australian Araneidae. No. 6. The Terretelariae". Records of the Australian Museum. 10: 187–270.

Further reading
  • Rix, M.G.; et al. (2017). "The spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Cataxia (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from south-western Australia: documenting a threatened fauna in a sky-island landscape". Journal of Arachnology. 45: 395–423.


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