Physoglenidae

Family of spiders

Physoglenidae

Pahoroides sp. (male)
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Physoglenidae
Petrunkevitch, 1928
Diversity
13 genera, 73 species

Physoglenidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Alexander Petrunkevitch in 1928 as a subfamily of Pholcidae.[1] It was later moved to Synotaxidae[2] until a study in 2016 showed that they formed a distinct clade.[3]

## Genera

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Main article: List of Physoglenidae species

As of April 2019[update], the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:[4]

* Calcarsynotaxus Wunderlich, 1995 — Australia
* Chileotaxus Platnick, 1990 — Chile
* Mangua Forster, 1990 — New Zealand
* Meringa Forster, 1990 — New Zealand
* Microsynotaxus Wunderlich, 2008 — Australia
* Nomaua Forster, 1990 — New Zealand
* Pahora Forster, 1990 — New Zealand
* Pahoroides Forster, 1990 — New Zealand
* Paratupua Platnick, 1990 — Australia
* Physoglenes Simon, 1904 — Chile
* Runga Forster, 1990 — New Zealand
* Tupua Platnick, 1990 — Australia
* Zeatupua Fitzgerald & Sirvid, 2009 — New Zealand

## References

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1. ^ Petrunkevitch, A. (1928). "Systema Aranearum". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 29.
2. ^ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (1990). "A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 193.
3. ^ Dimitrov, Dimitar; et al. (2016). "Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)" (PDF). Cladistics. 33 (3): 221–250\. doi:10.1111/cla.12165. PMID 34715728. S2CID 34962403. Retrieved 2016-10-18.221-250&rft.date=2016&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:34962403#id-name=S2CID&rft_id=info:pmid/34715728&rft_id=info:doi/10.1111/cla.12165&rft.aulast=Dimitrov&rft.aufirst=Dimitar&rft_id=http://macroecointern.dk/pdf-reprints/Dimitrov_Cladistics_2016.pdf&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Physoglenidae" class="Z3988">
4. ^ "Family: Physoglenidae Petrunkevitch, 1928". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-23.

Taxon identifiers

Physoglenidae|

* Wikidata: Q29870813
* AFD: Physoglenidae
* BOLD: 809562
* CoL: 625KR
* GBIF: 9583059
* iNaturalist: 498531
* NCBI: 2080959
* Open Tree of Life: 7106566
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0122