World Spider Catalog

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: see Lehtinen, 1967, Homann, 1968, Forster, 1970b: 111 and Wheeler et al., 2017: 606 for differing views on the limits of this family; transfer of Hapona and Laestrygones from Desidae (Murphy & Roberts, 2015: viii) not sufficiently justified and is not accepted here; Orepukia transferred from Agelenidae, Pakeha and Paravoca transferred from Amaurobiidae to Cycloctenidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 606; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 515, f. 15-16.

Gen. Pacificana Hogg, 1904 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02103

type Pacificana cockayni Hogg, 1904; gender feminine

N.B.: transferred from the Agelenidae to the Amaurobioidinae by Forster, 1955c: 184 and Lehtinen, 1967: 255; excluded from the Amaurobioidinae by Forster, 1970b: 165; placed in the Miturgidae by Brignoli, 1983c: 544; transferred to the Cycloctenidae by Gorneau et al., 2025: 3.

Pacificana cockayni Hogg, 1904 | | New Zealand (Bounty Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023544 TYPE SPECIES

Pacificana cockayni Hogg, 1904: 66, f. 1 (Df) Original description

Pacificana cockayni Forster, 1955c: 184, f. 24-28 (f)

Pacificana cockayni Paquin, Vink & Dupérré, 2010: 89, f. 54.6-8 (f)

Pacificana cockayni Gorneau et al., 2025: 3 (T from Miturgidae to Cycloctenidae)

Pacificana cockayni Vink, Sirvid & Dupérré, 2025: 609, f. 2A-D, 3-4, 5A-G (Dm, f, familiar placement uncertain)