World Spider Catalog

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. Sinoamaurobius Kong, Zhang & Wang, 2025 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06329

type Sinoamaurobius yintiaoling Kong, Zhang & Wang, 2025; gender masculine

Sinoamaurobius baima Kong, Zhang & Wang, 2025 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065563

Sinoamaurobius baima Kong, Zhang & Wang in Kong et al., 2025a: 272, f. 2A-C (Df) Original description

Sinoamaurobius chengkou Kong, Zhang & Wang, 2025 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065564

Sinoamaurobius chengkou Kong, Zhang & Wang in Kong et al., 2025a: 373, f. 3A-G (Dmf) Original description

Sinoamaurobius guangwushanensis (Wang, Irfan, Zhou & Zhang, 2023) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058698

Amaurobius guangwushanensis Wang et al., 2023c: 308, f. 1A-E, 2A-G (Dmf) Original description

Sinoamaurobius Kong et al., 2025a: 276 (T from Amaurobius)

Sinoamaurobius songi (L. Zhang, Wang & Z. S. Zhang, 2018) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050179

Amaurobius songi Zhang & Wang, 2017: 52, 8 f. (mf) (nomen nudum)

Amaurobius songi Zhang, Wang & Zhang, 2018: 364, f. 1A-E, 2A-G, 3A-D (Dmf) Original description

Sinoamaurobius songi Kong et al., 2025a: 276 (T from Amaurobius)

Sinoamaurobius spinatus (L. Zhang, Wang & Z. S. Zhang, 2018) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050180

Amaurobius spinatus Zhang, Wang & Zhang, 2018: 367, f. 4A-E, 5A-G, 6A-D (Dmf) Original description

Sinoamaurobius spinatus Kong et al., 2025a: 276 (T from Amaurobius)

Sinoamaurobius wulongdongensis (Wang, Irfan, Zhou & Zhang, 2023) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058699

Amaurobius wulongdongensis Wang et al., 2023c: 311, f. 3A-E, 4A-G (Dmf) Original description

Sinoamaurobius wulongdongensis Kong et al., 2025a: 276 (T from Amaurobius)

Sinoamaurobius yintiaoling Kong, Zhang & Wang, 2025 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065562 TYPE SPECIES

Sinoamaurobius yintiaoling Kong, Zhang & Wang in Kong et al., 2025a: 277, f. 1A, 4A-G (Dmf) Original description