Cataxia
Genus of spiders
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Cataxia is a genus of Australian armoured trapdoor spiders that was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1914.[3]
| Cataxia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Idiopidae |
| Genus: | Cataxia Rainbow, 1914[1] |
| Type species | |
| C. maculata Rainbow, 1914 | |
| Species | |
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15, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
As of May 2019[update] the genus contained fifteen species from the states of New South Wales (NSW), Queensland (QLD), Victoria (VIC) or Western Australia (WA):[1]
- 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