Genus Cataxia Rainbow, 1914

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cataxia Rainbow, W.J. 1914. Studies in Australian Araneidae. No. 6. The Terretelariae. Records of the Australian Museum 10: 187-270 [15 Aug. 1914] [222].

  Type species:

   Cataxia maculata Rainbow, 1914 by monotypy.
• Homogona Rainbow, W.J. 1914. Studies in Australian Araneidae. No. 6. The Terretelariae. Records of the Australian Museum 10: 187-270 [15 Aug. 1914] [189].

  Type species:

   Homogona pulleinei Rainbow, 1914 by monotypy.
• Neohomogona Main, B.Y. 1985. Further studies on the systematics of ctenizid trapdoor spiders: A review of the Australian genera (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 108: 1-84 [42].

  Type species:

   Neohomogona bolganupensis Main, 1985 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Raven, R.J. 1985. The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and Systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182(1): 1-180 [Date published December 5, 1985] [175]
• Main, B.Y. 1993. From flood avoidance to foraging: adaptive shifts in trapdoor spider behaviour. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33: 599–606 [600] (synonymy rejected)
• Rix, M.G., Bain, K., Main, B.Y., Raven,R.J., Austin, A.D., Cooper, S.J.B. & Harvey, M.S. 2017. Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Cataxia (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from southwestern Australia: documenting a threatened fauna in a sky-island landscape. Journal of Arachnology 45: 395–423 [399] (synonymy accepted)
• Rix, M.G., Raven, R.J., Main, B.Y., Harrison, S., Austin, A.D., Cooper, S.J.B. & Harvey, M.S. 2017. The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae : Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level. Invertebrate Systematics 31: 566–634 (synonymy accepted)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; WA: Mallee (MAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal

General References

Rix, M.G., Bain, K., Main, B.Y., Raven,R.J., Austin, A.D., Cooper, S.J.B. & Harvey, M.S. 2017. Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Cataxia (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from southwestern Australia: documenting a threatened fauna in a sky-island landscape. Journal of Arachnology 45: 395–423

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Oct-2020		29-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020		11-May-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)