Synotax spiders ( Latin: Synotaxidae ) is a small family of araneomorphic spiders , numbering 68 species from 13 genera and 3 subfamilies.
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Female Pahoroides |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Infrastructure : | Araneomorphic Spiders |
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Synotaxidae Simon , 1894 |
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Family species are found in Central and South America, New Zealand and Australia.
Subfamily categorization referring to the Joel Hallan Biological Catalog :
- Pahorinae Forster, Platnick & Coddington, 1990 - New Zealand Endemic
- Nomaua Forster, 1990
- Pahora Forster, 1990
- Pahoroides Forster, 1990
- Runga Forster, 1990
- Wairua Forster, 1990
- Physogleninae Petrunkevitch, 1928
- Meringa Forster, 1990 - New Zealand
- Paratupua Platnick, 1990 - Australia
- Physoglenes Simon, 1904 - Chile
- Tupua Platnick, 1990 - Tasmania
- Calcarsynotaxus Wunderlich, 1995 - Australia
- Chileotaxus Platnick , 1990 - Chile
- Synotaxus Simon, 1895 - South America
- Mangua Forster , 1990 - New Zealand
- List of species of the family Synotaxidae
- Agnarsson I. 2003b. The phylogenetic placement and circumscription of the genus Synotaxus (Araneae: Synotaxidae) with a description of a new species from Guyana, and notes on theridioid phylogeny. Invertebrate Systematics 17 (6): 719-734. PDF ( Synotaxus waiwai )
- Eberhard, WG (1995). The web and building behavior of Synotaxus ecuadorensis (Araneae, Synotaxidae). J. Arachnol. 23: 25-30. Pdf
