Euagridae

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Euagridae
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Euagrus species in Guadalajara, Mexico
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Clade: Avicularioidea
Family: Euagridae
Raven, 1979
Genera

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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

As of July 2021, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following genera: [2]

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. 1 2 3 "Family: Euagridae Raven, 1979", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2020-07-12
  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