Anamidae

Anamidae
Namea nigritarsus
Male Chenistonia caeruleomontana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Clade: Avicularioidea
Family: Anamidae
Simon, 1889[1]
Diversity
10 genera, 206 species
blue: reported countries (WSC)

Anamidae is a family of Australian mygalomorph spiders. It was first described as a tribe by Simon in 1889, then raised to the subfamily Anaminae of the family Nemesiidae, before being raised to a family level by Opatova et al. in 2020.[1][2]

Distribution

All members of the family are endemic to Australia.[3]

Taxonomy

The tribe Anamini was first described by Eugène Simon in 1899.[3] In 1982, Barbara York Main distinguished the tribe Teylini from the tribe Anamini by technical differences, including a narrow band of cuspules on the maxillae and the absence of a spine-bearing spur on the first tibia of males (except in Teyloides).[4] A molecular phylogenetic study in 2018 found that Anamini excluding Teylini was not monophyletic, and so merged the former Teylini into Anamini, placing the tribe in the subfamily Anaminae of the family Nemesiidae.[3] In 2020, Opatova et al. raised the group to the rank of family, including all nine genera previously placed in the Anamini.[2]

Genera

As of January 2026, this family includes ten genera and 206 species.[1] A 2018 molecular phylogenetic study divided them into four informal groups.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Family Anamidae Simon, 1889". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2026-01-18.
  2. ^ a b 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" (PDF), Systematic Biology, 69 (4): 671–707, doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz064
  3. ^ a b c d Harvey, Mark S.; Hillyer, Mia J.; Main, Barbara York; Moulds, Timothy A.; Raven, Robert J.; Rix, Michael G.; Vink, Cor J. & Huey, Joel A. (2018), "Phylogenetic relationships of the Australasian open-holed trapdoor spiders (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae: Anaminae): multi-locus molecular analyses resolve the generic classification of a highly diverse fauna", Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 184 (2): 407–452, doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx111
  4. ^ Main, B.Y. (2004), "Biosystematics of Australian mygalomorph spiders: descriptions of three species of Teyl from Victoria (Araneae: Nemesiidae)" (PDF), Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 61 (1): 47–55, doi:10.24199/j.mmv.2004.61.3, retrieved 2021-01-12
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