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

Cataxia
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Domain: Eukaryota
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]

Species

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As of May 2019 the genus contained fifteen species from the states of New South Wales (NSW), Queensland (QLD), Victoria (VIC) or Western Australia (WA):[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Cataxia Rainbow, 1914". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  2. ^ a b 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.

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