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. Muritaia Forster & Wilton, 1973 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02030
Muritaia kaituna Forster & Wilton, 1973 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022980
Muritaia kaituna Forster & Wilton, 1973: 266, f. 924-925 (Df) Original description
Muritaia longispinata Forster & Wilton, 1973 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022981
Muritaia longispinata Forster & Wilton, 1973: 267, f. 928-929 (Df) Original description
Muritaia orientalis Forster & Wilton, 1973 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022982
Muritaia orientalis Forster & Wilton, 1973: 267, f. 926-927 (Df) Original description
Muritaia parabusa Forster & Wilton, 1973 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022983
Muritaia parabusa Forster & Wilton, 1973: 266, f. 922-923 (Df) Original description
Muritaia suba Forster & Wilton, 1973 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022984
Muritaia suba Forster & Wilton, 1973: 266, f. 915-921 (Dmf) Original description

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