Cataxia Explained

Cataxia is a genus of Australian armoured trapdoor spiders that was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1914.^[1]

Species

the genus contained fifteen species from the states of New South Wales (NSW), Queensland (QLD), Victoria (VIC) or Western Australia (WA):^[2]

• 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

Further reading

• Rix. M.G.. etal. 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. 10.1636/JoA-S-17-012.1. 198160401. Michael_Gordon_Rix.

Notes and References

1. Rainbow. W. J.. 1914. Studies in the Australian Araneidae. No. 6. The Terretelariae.. Records of the Australian Museum. 187–270. 10. 10.3853/j.0067-1975.10.1914.901. free.
2. Gen. Cataxia Rainbow, 1914. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-12. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.