World Spider Catalog

Macrobunidae Bonnet, 1957

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: elevated from subfamily of Amaurobiidae by Gorneau et al., 2023: 10, but with the authorpship of Petrunkevitch, 1928: 44, 114, who used Myropsininae (Myropsis is preoccupied); Bonnet, 1957: 2689 corrected to Macrobuninae (see Lin et al., 2024: 19); included genera listed by Wheeler et al., 2017: 605 (sub Macrobuninae, see also Gorneau et al., 2023: 10 and Lin et al., 2024: 19).

In synonymy:

Notolathys Mello-Leitão, 1920 = Auximella Strand, 1908 (Lehtinen, 1967: 252)

Gen. Auximella Strand, 1908 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02010

type Auximella typica Strand, 1908; gender feminine

N.B.: transferred from the Dictynidae to the Amaurobiidae by Lehtinen, 1967: 252 and to the Macrobunidae by Gorneau et al., 2023: 10; considered a senior synonym of Notolathys Mello-Leitão, 1920c: 169 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04920] (originally described as a subgenus of Lathys, type Lathys subdifficile Mello-Leitão, 1920) by Lehtinen, 1967: 252.

Auximella harpagula (Simon, 1906) | | Ecuador urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022669

Auximus harpagulus Simon, 1906b: 301 (Dmf) Original description

Auximella harpagula Lehtinen, 1967: 217, f. 169, 176 (Tmf from Auximus=Lathys)

Auximella minensis (Mello-Leitão, 1926) | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022670

Notolathys minensis Mello-Leitão, 1926b: 16, f. 18 (Df) Original description

Auximella producta (Chamberlin, 1916) | | Peru urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022671

Auximus productus Chamberlin, 1916: 211, pl. 8, f. 5-7 (Df) Original description

Auximella producta Lehtinen, 1967: 217 (Tf from Auximus=Lathys)

Auximella spinosa (Mello-Leitão, 1926) | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022672

Notolathys spinosus Mello-Leitão, 1926b: 17, f. 19-20 (Dm) Original description

Auximella subdifficilis (Mello-Leitão, 1920) | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022673

Lathys (Notolathys) subdifficile Mello-Leitão, 1920c: 169 (Df) Original description

Notolathys subdifficilis Mello-Leitão, 1926b: 15

Notolathys difficilis Roewer, 1955c: 1333 (lapsus)

Auximella typica Strand, 1908 | | Peru urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022674 TYPE SPECIES

Auximella typica Strand, 1908e: 224 (Df) Original description

Auximella typica Lehtinen, 1967: 443, f. 173 (f)