Euagridae

Euagridae
Euagrus species in Guadalajara, Mexico
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Clade:	Avicularioidea
Family:	Euagridae Raven, 1979
Genera
See text.
blue: reported countries (WSC) green: observation hotspots (iNaturalist)

Euagridae is a family of mygalomorph spiders. The group was first described as a tribe in 1979 by Robert Raven, ^[1] who in 1985 elevated it to a subfamily. ^[2] In 2020, Opatova et al. elevated it further to a family. ^{[2] [3]}

Genera

• 
  Allothele teretis
• 
  Euagros carlos
• 
  E. chisoseus
• 
  E. gertschi

As of October 2025 ^[update] , this family includes fourteen genera: ^[2]

• Allothele Tucker, 1920 – Angola, DR Congo, Malawi, South Africa
• Australothele Raven, 1984 – Australia
• Caledothele Raven, 1991 – Australia, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands
• Carrai Raven, 1984 – Australia
• Cethegus (spider) Thorell, 1881 – Australia
• Chilehexops Coyle, 1986 – Argentina, Chile
• Chinothele Yu, S. Y. Zhang & F. Zhang, 2021 – China
• Euagrus Ausserer, 1875 – South Africa, Taiwan, Guatemala, Mexico, United States
• Leptothele Raven & Schwendinger, 1995 – Thailand
• Malayathele Schwendinger, 2020 – Malaysia
• Namirea Raven, 1984 – Australia
• Phyxioschema Simon, 1889 – Asia
• Stenygrocercus Simon, 1892 – New Caledonia
• Vilchura Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2017 – Chile

References

1. Raven, R.J. (1979), "Systematics of the mygalomorph spider genus Masteria (Masteriinae: Dipluridae: Arachnida)", Australian Journal of Zoology, 27 (4): 623–63, doi:10.1071/ZO9790623
2. "Family: Euagridae Raven, 1979". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-09.
3. Opatova, Vera; Hamilton, Chris A.; Hedin, Marshal; Montes De Oca, Lauren; Král, Jiři & Bond, Jason E. (2019), "Phylogenetic Systematics and Evolution of the Spider Infraorder Mygalomorphae Using Genomic Scale Data", Systematic Biology, 69 (4): 671–707, doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syz064 , PMID   31841157

External links

• Citizen science observations for Euagridae at iNaturalist