Cataxia

Cataxia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Idiopidae
Genus:	Cataxia Rainbow, 1914 [1]
Type species
C. maculata Rainbow, 1914
Species
15, see text
Synonyms [1]
HomogonaRainbow, 1914 [2] Neohomogona Main, 1985 [2]

Cataxia is a genus of Australian armoured trapdoor spiders that was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1914. ^[3]

Species

As of May 2019 ^[update] the genus contained fifteen species from the states of New South Wales (NSW), Queensland (QLD), Victoria (VIC) or Western Australia (WA): ^[1]

• Cataxia babindaensis Main, 1969 – QLD
• Cataxia barrettae Rix, Bain, Main & Harvey, 2017 – WA
• Cataxia bolganupensis (Main, 1985) – WA
• Cataxia colesi Rix, Bain, Main & Harvey, 2017 – WA
• Cataxia cunicularis (Main, 1983) – QLD
• Cataxia dietrichae Main, 1985 – QLD
• Cataxia eungellaensis Main, 1969 – QLD
• Cataxia maculata Rainbow, 1914 (type) – QLD
• Cataxia melindae Rix, Bain, Main & Harvey, 2017 – WA
• Cataxia pallida (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918) – QLD
• Cataxia pulleinei (Rainbow, 1914) – NSW, QLD
• Cataxia sandsorum Rix, Bain, Main & Harvey, 2017 – WA
• Cataxia spinipectoris Main, 1969 – QLD
• Cataxia stirlingi (Main, 1985) – WA
• Cataxia victoriae (Main, 1985) – VIC

See also

• List of Idiopidae species

References

1. "Gen. Cataxia Rainbow, 1914". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-12.
2. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 154.
3. Rainbow, W. J. (1914). "Studies in the Australian Araneidae. No. 6. The Terretelariae". Records of the Australian Museum. 10: 187–270. doi: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.10.1914.901 .

Further reading

• Rix, M.G.; et al. (2017). "The spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Cataxia (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from south-western Australia: documenting a threatened fauna in a sky-island landscape". Journal of Arachnology. 45: 395–423. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-17-012.1. S2CID   198160401.