| Euctenizidae | |
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| Aptostichus sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Clade: | Avicularioidea |
| Family: | Euctenizidae Raven, 1985 |
| Diversity | |
| 8 genera, 77 species | |
The Euctenizidae (formerly Cyrtaucheniidae subfamily Euctenizinae) are a family of mygalomorph spiders. They are now considered to be more closely related to Idiopidae.[citation needed]
Etymology
[edit]The name comes from the Greek prefix εὖ- (eu-), meaning "valuable" or "good", which had been thought that the family Ctenizidae possess these traits.[1]
Biology
[edit]Many, but not all, make wafer-like doors to their burrows, while others build the cork-like doors found commonly in the true[clarification needed] trapdoor spiders. The biology of nearly all of the species is poorly known.
Distribution
[edit]The family occurs almost exclusively in the United States and Mexico. Common U.S. genera include Myrmekiaphila, Aptostichus and Promyrmekiaphila.
Genera
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As of October 2020[update], the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:[2]
- Apomastus Bond & Opell, 2002 — United States
- Aptostichus Simon, 1891 — United States, Mexico
- Cryptocteniza Bond & Hamilton, 2020 — United States
- Entychides Simon, 1888 — United States, Mexico
- Eucteniza Ausserer, 1875 — Mexico, United States
- Myrmekiaphila Atkinson, 1886 — United States
- Neoapachella Bond & Opell, 2002 — United States
- Promyrmekiaphila Schenkel, 1950 — United States
See also
[edit]Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Bond, J. E., B. E. Hendrixson, C. A. Hamilton & M. Hedin. (Bond et al., 2012b) - A reconsideration of the classification of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Arachnida: Araneae) based on three nuclear genes and morphology
- ^ "Family: Euctenizidae Raven, 1985". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
References
[edit]- {Raven, Robert J. (1985): The spider Infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 1–180.
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Bond, J. E. Phylogenetic treatment and taxonomic revision of the trapdoor spider genus Aptostichus Simon (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Euctenizidae). ZooKeys 252: 1–209.
- Bond, J. E., C. A. Hamilton, N. L. Garrison & C. H. Ray. Phylogenetic reconsideration of Myrmekiaphila systematics with a description of the trapdoor spider species Myrmekiaphila tigris (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Cyrtaucheniidae, Euctenizinae) from Auburn, Alabama. ZooKeys 190: 94–109.
- Bond, J. E., B. E. Hendrixson, C. A. Hamilton & M. Hedin. A reconsideration of the classification of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Arachnida: Araneae) based on three nuclear genes and morphology. PLoS One 7(6): e38753.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2014): The world spider catalog, version 14.5. American Museum of Natural History. doi:10.5531/db.iz.0001
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