Cataxia

Short description: Genus of spiders

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]

* Homogona Rainbow, 1914[2]
* Neohomogona Main, 1985[2]

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

## Contents

* 1 Species
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 Further reading

## 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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Cataxia Rainbow, 1914. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1083. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/27746.

## Further reading

* Rix, M.G. (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. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/289923.

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