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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Sectio: Dionycha

Familia: Anyphaenidae
Subfamilia: Amaurobioidinae
Tribus: Amaurobioidini
Genus: Amaurobioides
Species: A. africana – A. chilensis – A. isolata – A. litoralis – A. major – A. maritima – A. minor – A. pallida – A. picuna – A. piscator – A. pleta – A. pohara
Name

Amaurobioides O. P.-Cambridge, 1883

Type species: Amaurobioides maritima O. P.-Cambridge, 1883
Synonyms

Cluilius Simon, 1889

Amaurobioides africana 1

Amaurobioides africana, adult female from South Africa

References

Hirst, D.B. 1993: A new species of Amaurobioides O.P.-Cambridge (Anyphaenidae: Araneae) from South Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 33(2): 529–532.
Opell, B.D.; Berger, A.M.; Bous, S.M.; Manning, M.L. 2007: Genetic relationships of Amaurobioides (Anyphaenidae) spiders from the southeastern coast of New Zealand. Zootaxa, 1425: 1–10. Abstract & excerpt PDF
Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Amaurobioides is a genus of anyphaenid sac spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1883.[2]
Species

As of April 2019 it contains twelve species:[1]

Amaurobioides africana Hewitt, 1917 – Namibia, South Africa
Amaurobioides chilensis (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
Amaurobioides isolata Hirst, 1993 – Australia (South Australia)
Amaurobioides litoralis Hickman, 1949 – Australia (Tasmania)
Amaurobioides major Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
Amaurobioides maritima O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883 – New Zealand
Amaurobioides minor Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
Amaurobioides pallida Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
Amaurobioides picuna Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
Amaurobioides piscator Hogg, 1909 – New Zealand (Auckland Is., Campbell Is.)
Amaurobioides pleta Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
Amaurobioides pohara Forster, 1970 – New Zealand

References

"Gen. Amaurobioides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1883). "On some new genera and species of spiders". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 51 (3): 352–365. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1883.tb06654.x.

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