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.

In synonymy:

Malala Davies, 1993 = Daviesa Koçak & Kemal, 2008 (Koçak & Kemal, 2008a: 2, preoccupied, replacement name)

Homonym replaced:

Malala Davies, 1993 -- see Daviesa Koçak & Kemal, 2008

Gen. Daviesa Koçak & Kemal, 2008 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03827
N.B.: replacement name for Malala Davies, 1993: 483 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02026], preoccupied in Hemiptera by Distant, 1910; placed incertae sedis within Amaurobioidea by Davies, 1993, tentatively assigned here to Amaurobiidae on the basis of the multiple tibial apophyses.
Daviesa gallonae (Davies, 1993) | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022965
Malala gallonae Davies, 1993: 487, f. 10-12, 18-19, 28-31 (Dmf) Original description
Daviesa gallonae Koçak & Kemal, 2008a: 2 (T from Malala)
Daviesa lubinae (Davies, 1993) | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022966
Malala lubinae Davies, 1993: 484, f. 1-9, 13-17, 20-27 (Dmf) Original description
Daviesa lubinae Koçak & Kemal, 2008a: 2 (T from Malala)

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