Amaurobioides

Amaurobioides
A. africana, adult female
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Anyphaenidae
Genus:	Amaurobioides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883[1]
Type species
A. maritima O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883
Species
12, see text
Synonyms[1]
Cluilius

Amaurobioides is a genus of anyphaenid sac spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1883.[2]

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains twelve species:[1]

• Amaurobioides africana Hewitt, 1917 – Namibia, South Africa
• Amaurobioides chilensis (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
• Amaurobioides isolata Hirst, 1993 – Australia (South Australia)
• Amaurobioides litoralis Hickman, 1949 – Australia (Tasmania)
• Amaurobioides major Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Amaurobioides maritima O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883 – New Zealand
• Amaurobioides minor Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Amaurobioides pallida Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Amaurobioides picuna Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Amaurobioides piscator Hogg, 1909 – New Zealand (Auckland Is., Campbell Is.)
• Amaurobioides pleta Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Amaurobioides pohara Forster, 1970 – New Zealand

References

1. "Gen. Amaurobioides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1883). "On some new genera and species of spiders". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 51 (3): 352–365. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1883.tb06654.x.