Belongs within: Amaurobioidea.
Contains: Pakeha, Amaurobius, Pireneitega, Coelotes.
The Amaurobiidae is a cosmopolitan group of ground-dwelling spiders found in damp, cryptic habitats. Members construct small funnel-shaped webs that are often provided with several concealed retreats (Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman 2007). The monophyly of the family is uncertain; a group of genera closely related to the type genus Amaurobius may be defined by a striated texture to the small trichobothrial hood, and modified spigots associated with the cribellum (Wang & Zhu 2008). Members of the subfamily Coelotinae are ecribellate whereas a cribellum is present in other subfamilies (Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman 2007).
Characters (from Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman 2007): Small to large; eight eyes present in two rows, usually all pale in colour; legs with three tarsal claws; cribellate or ecribellate; male palp with simple sclerotised retrolateral and dorsal tibial apophyses; entelegyne.
<==Amaurobiidae [Cliniflonidae] |--AltellopsinaeJD-S07 |--Arctobius Lehtinen 1967WZ08 [ArctobiinaeJD-S07] |--MacrobuninaeJD-S07 | |--RetiroGC99 | `--Macrobunus Tullgren 1901WZ08 | `--M. multidentatusR14 |--AmaurobiinaeJD-S07 | |--AmaurobiusWZ08 | `--Callobius Chamberlin 1947GC99, WZ08 | |--C. bennetti (Blackwall 1846)PS08 | |--C. nomeus (Chamberlin 1919)PS08 | `--C. severusJD-S07 `--CoelotinaeWZ08 |--Coras Simon 1898WJ07 |--PireneitegaWJ07 |--CoelotesWJ07 |--Platocoelotes Wang 2002WJ07 | |--*P. impletus (Peng & Wang 1997) [=Coelotes impletus]WJ07 | `--P. imperfectus Wang & Jäger 2007WJ07 |--Iwogumoa Kishida 1955 [incl. Asiacoelotes Wang 2002]WJ07 | |--*I. insidiosa (Koch 1878) [=Coelotes insidiosus]WJ07 | |--I. taoyuandong (Bao & Yin 2004) [=Coelotes taoyuandong]WJ07 | `--I. xinhuiensis (Chen 1984)WJ07 |--Himalcoelotes Wang 2002WJ07 | |--*H. martensi Wang 2002WJ07 | |--H. bursarius Wang 2002WJ07 | |--H. sherpa (Brignoli 1976)WJ07 | `--H. xizangensis (Hu 1992) [=Coelotes xizangensis]WJ07 `--Draconarius Ovtchinnikov 1999WJ07 |--*D. venustus Ovtchinnikov 1999WJ07 |--D. curvabilis Wang & Jäger 2007WJ07 |--D. flos Wang & Jäger 2007WJ07 |--D. gyriniformis (Wang & Zhu 1991) [=Coelotes gyriniformis]WJ07 |--D. paratrifasciatus Wang & Jäger 2007WJ07 |--D. sichuanensis Wang & Jäger 2007WJ07 |--D. trifasciatus (Wang & Zhu 1991)WJ07 `--D. trinus Wang & Jäger 2007WJ07 Amaurobiidae incertae sedis: PakehaPVD10 Paravoca Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 |--*P. otagoensis Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 `--P. opaca Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 Otira Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 |--*O. satura Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 |--O. canasta Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 |--O. indura Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 |--O. liana Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 |--O. parva Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 `--O. terricola Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 Auximella typica Strand 1908J98 Himalmartensus Wang & Zhu 2008WZ08 |--*H. martensi Wang & Zhu 2008WZ08 |--H. ausobskyi Wang & Zhu 2008WZ08 `--H. nepalensis Wang & Zhu 2008WZ08 Rubrius Simon 1887WZ08 Taira Lehtinen 1967WZ08 Tamgrinia tibetana (Hu & Li 1987)WZ08 CallioplusD90 ChresionaJD-S07 Auhunga Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 `--*A. pectinata Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 Maloides Forster & Wilton in Platnick 1989PVD10 `--*M. cavernicola (Forster & Wilton 1973)PVD10 Muritaia Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 |--*M. suba Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 |--M. kaituna Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 |--M. longispinata Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 |--M. orientalis Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 `--M. parabusa Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 Poaka Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 `--*P. graminicola Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 Waitetola Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 `--*W. huttoni Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10 Cliniflo Blackwell 1840PL73 AuximusS93 |--A. fossilis Petrunkevitch 1942S93 `--A. succini Petrunkevitch 1942S93
*Type species of generic name indicated
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