Genus Aname L. Koch, 1873

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aname Koch, L. 1873. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1(8-9) 369-472 pp. [465].

  Type species:

   Aname pallida L. Koch, 1873 by monotypy.
• Dekana Hogg, H.R. 1902. On some additions to the Australian spiders of the sub-order Mygalomorphae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1902(2): 121-142 [3 June 1902] [138].

  Type species:

   Dekana diversicolor Hogg, 1902 by original designation.
• Sungenia Rainbow, W.J. & Pulleine, R.H. 1918. Australian trap-door spiders. Records of the Australian Museum 12: 81-169 [24 Dec. 1918] [162].

  Type species:

   Chenistonia (Dekana) atra Strand, 1913 by monotypy.
• Dolichosternum Rainbow, W.J. & Pulleine, R.H. 1918. Australian trap-door spiders. Records of the Australian Museum 12: 81-169 [24 Dec. 1918] [168].

  Type species:

   Dolichosternum attenuatum Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Raven, R.J. 1981. A review of the Australian genera of the mygalomorph spider subfamily Diplurinae (Dipluridae, Chelicerata). Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 321-363 [17 June 1981] [310]
• Main, B.Y. 1982. Notes on the revised taxonomic position of the black wishbone spider Dekana diversicolor Hogg (Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 65: 25-29

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, S Gulfs, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

General References

Castalanelli, M.A., Framenau, V.W., Huey, J.A., Hillyer, M.J. & Harvey, M.S. 2020. New species of the open-holed trapdoor spider genus Aname (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Anamidae) from arid Western Australia. Journal of Arachnology 48: 169-213 [172]

Harvey, M., Wilson, J. & Rix., M. 2022. Two new species of the open-holed trapdoor spider genus Aname (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Anamidae) from southern Australia. Australian Journal of Taxonomy 2: 1-8

Harvey, M.S., Rix, M.G., Hillyer, M.J., & Huey, J.A. 2020. The systematics and phylogenetic position of the troglobitic Australian spider genus Troglodiplura (Araneae : Mygalomorphae), with a new classification for Anamidae. Invertebrate Systematics 34: 799–822 [808] (moved to subfamily Anaminae)

Opatova, V., Hamilton, C.A., Hedin, M., Montes de Oca, L., Král, J. & Bond, J.E. 2020. Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data. Systematic Biology 69(4): 671-707 [701] (moved from previous position in family NEMESIIDAE)

Wilson, J.D., Rix, M.G. & Harvey, M.S. 2023. Description of five new Aname L. Koch, 1873 (Araneae, Anamidae) species collected on Bush Blitz expeditions. European Journal of Taxonomy 890: 1-22 [5]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Oct-2020		14-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020		29-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)