Amaurobiidae Thorell, 1869

Family |   ACCEPTED
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.
Gen. Arctobius Lehtinen, 1967 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02008
Arctobius agelenoides (Emerton, 1919) | | USA (Alaska), Canada, Northern Europe, Russia (Far East) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022667
Amaurobius agelenoides Emerton, 1919a: 106, pl. 7, f. 7a-d (Dmf) Original description
Hesperauximus agelenoides Chamberlin, 1947: 18, f. 28 (Tmf from Amaurobius)
Hesperauximus agelenoides Bishop, 1949: 104, f. 11-13 (m)
Arctobius agelenoides Lehtinen, 1967: 215, f. 143-147 (Tmf from Hesperauximus=Badumna)
Arctobius agelenoides Leech, 1972: 93, f. 173-176, 385-386 (mf)
Arctobius agelenoides Palmgren, 1977a: 25, f. 5.17-18 (mf)
Arctobius agelenoides Danilov, 1994: 200, f. 2 (f)
Arctobius agelenoides Almquist, 2006: 326, f. 286a-c (m)
Arctobius agelenoides Tanasevitch & Kamayev, 2011: 8, f. 1-3 (f)
Arctobius agelenoides Marusik, Ballarin & Omelko, 2012a: 57, f. 9-11 (mf)

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