Cataxia

Cataxia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Idiopidae
Genus:	Cataxia; Rainbow, 1914
Type species
	C. maculata; Rainbow, 1914
Species
	15, see text
Synonyms
	Homogona Rainbow, 1914; Neohomogona Main, 1985;

Cataxia is a genus of Australian armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by W. J. Rainbow in 1914.^[3]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains fifteen species:^[1]

Cataxia babindaensis Main, 1969 – Australia (Queensland)
Cataxia barrettae Rix, Bain, Main & Harvey, 2017 – Australia (Western Australia)
Cataxia bolganupensis (Main, 1985) – Australia (Western Australia)
Cataxia colesi Rix, Bain, Main & Harvey, 2017 – Australia (Western Australia)
Cataxia cunicularis (Main, 1983) – Australia (Queensland)
Cataxia dietrichae Main, 1985 – Australia (Queensland)
Cataxia eungellaensis Main, 1969 – Australia (Queensland)
Cataxia maculata Rainbow, 1914 (type) – Australia (Queensland)
Cataxia melindae Rix, Bain, Main & Harvey, 2017 – Australia (Western Australia)
Cataxia pallida (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918) – Australia (Queensland)
Cataxia pulleinei (Rainbow, 1914) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
Cataxia sandsorum Rix, Bain, Main & Harvey, 2017 – Australia (Western Australia)
Cataxia spinipectoris Main, 1969 – Australia (Queensland)
Cataxia stirlingi (Main, 1985) – Australia (Western Australia)
Cataxia victoriae (Main, 1985) – Australia (Victoria)

^ ^a ^b ^c "Gen. Cataxia Rainbow, 1914". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
^ ^a ^b Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 154.
^ Rainbow, W. J. (1914). "Studies in the Australian Araneidae. No. 6. The Terretelariae". Records of the Australian Museum. 10: 187–270.