Antrodiaetus

Antrodiaetus is a genus of American and Japanese folding trapdoor spiders first described by Anton Ausserer in 1871.[2] The name is a combination of the Greek "antrodiaitos" (αντροδιαιτος), meaning "living in caves", "antron" (αντρον), meaning "cave", and "diaita (διαιτα), meaning "way of life, dwelling".[3]

Antrodiaetus
Female A. unicolor.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Antrodiaetidae
Genus: Antrodiaetus
Ausserer, 1871[1]
Type species
A. unicolor (Hentz, 1842)
Species

See text.

Synonyms[1]
  • Acattyma
  • Brachybothrium

Species

As of May 2019 the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]

  • Antrodiaetus apachecus Coyle, 1971 — USA
  • Antrodiaetus ashlandensis Cokendolpher, Peck & Niwa, 2005 — USA
  • Antrodiaetus cerberus Coyle, 1971 — USA
  • Antrodiaetus coylei Cokendolpher, Peck & Niwa, 2005 — USA
  • Antrodiaetus effeminatus Cokendolpher, Peck & Niwa, 2005 — USA
  • Antrodiaetus hageni (Chamberlin, 1917) — USA
  • Antrodiaetus lincolnianus (Worley, 1928) — USA
  • Antrodiaetus metapacificus Cokendolpher, Peck & Niwa, 2005 — USA
  • Antrodiaetus microunicolor Hendrixson & Bond, 2005 — USA
  • Antrodiaetus montanus (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935) — USA
  • Antrodiaetus occultus Coyle, 1971 — USA
  • Antrodiaetus pacificus (Simon, 1884) — USA
  • Antrodiaetus pugnax (Chamberlin, 1917) — USA
  • Antrodiaetus robustus (Simon, 1891) — USA
  • Antrodiaetus roretzi (L. Koch, 1878) — Japan
  • Antrodiaetus stygius Coyle, 1971 — USA
  • Antrodiaetus unicolor (Hentz, 1842) — USA
  • Antrodiaetus yesoensis (Uyemura, 1942) — Japan
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References
  1. "Gen. Antrodiaetus Ausserer, 1871". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
  2. Ausserer, A. (1871). "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor)". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 21: 117–224.
  3. "Genus Antrodiaetus". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-05-09.


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