Belongs within: Amaurobioidea.
Contains: Amaurobius.
The Amaurobiidae are a cosmopolitan group of ground-dwelling spiders found in damp, cryptic habitats. Members construct small funnel-shaped webs that are often provided with several concealed retreats (Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman 2007). The monophyly of the family is uncertain; a Holarctic group of genera closely related to the type genus Amaurobius may be defined by a striated texture to the small trichobothrial hood, and modified spigots associated with the cribellum (Wang & Zhu 2008). Other subfamilies historically included in the Amaurobiidae, such as the ecribellate Coelotinae, have been excluded by recent phylogenetic analyses. The Altellopsinae are a poorly known Neotropical group defined by features of the female genitalia (Wheeler et al. 2017).
Characters (Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman 2007): Small to large; eight eyes present in two rows, usually all pale in colour; legs with three tarsal claws; cribellate or ecribellate; male palp with simple sclerotised retrolateral and dorsal tibial apophyses; entelegyne.
<==Amaurobiidae [Cliniflonidae]
|--AltellopsinaeJD-S07
|--Arctobius Lehtinen 1967WZ08 [ArctobiinaeJD-S07]
|--OvtchinnikoviinaeWC17
`--AmaurobiinaeJD-S07
|--Pimus Chamberlin 1947WC17, WZ08
| |--P. iveiWC17
| `--P. napaR14
`--+--AmaurobiusWC17
`--Callobius Chamberlin 1947WC17, WZ08
|--C. bennetti (Blackwall 1846)PS08
|--C. nomeus (Chamberlin 1919)PS08
`--C. severusJD-S07
Amaurobiidae incertae sedis:
Otira Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10
|--*O. satura Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10
|--O. canasta Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10
|--O. indura Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10
|--O. liana Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10
|--O. parva Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10
`--O. terricola Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10
Himalmartensus Wang & Zhu 2008WZ08
|--*H. martensi Wang & Zhu 2008WZ08
|--H. ausobskyi Wang & Zhu 2008WZ08
`--H. nepalensis Wang & Zhu 2008WZ08
Taira Lehtinen 1967WZ08
CallioplusD90
Auhunga Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10
`--*A. pectinata Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10
Maloides Forster & Wilton in Platnick 1989PVD10
`--*M. cavernicola (Forster & Wilton 1973)PVD10
Muritaia Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10
|--*M. suba Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10
|--M. kaituna Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10
|--M. longispinata Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10
|--M. orientalis Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10
`--M. parabusa Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10
Waitetola Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10
`--*W. huttoni Forster & Wilton 1973PVD10
Cliniflo Blackwell 1840PL73
AuximusS93
|--A. fossilis Petrunkevitch 1942S93
`--A. succini Petrunkevitch 1942S93
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[D90] Dondale, C. D. 1990. Litter Araneae (Araneida). In: Dindal, D. L. (ed.) Soil Biology Guide pp. 477–502. John Wiley & Sones: New York.
[JD-S07] Jocqué, R., & A. S. Dippenaar-Schoeman. 2007. Spider Families of the World. Royal Museum for Central Africa: Tervuren (Belgium).
[PVD10] Paquin, P., C. J. Vink & N. Dupérré. 2010. Spiders of New Zealand: annotated family key and species list. Manaaki Whenua Press: Lincoln (New Zealand).
[PS08] Pinzón, J., & J. Spence. 2008. Performance of two arboreal pitfall trap designs in sampling cursorial spiders from tree trunks. Journal of Arachnology 36 (2): 280–286.
[PL73] Platnick, N., & H. W. Levi. 1973. On family names of spiders. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 2 (8): 166–167.
[R14] Ramírez, M. J. 2014. The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 390: 1–374.
[S93] Selden, P. A. 1993. Arthropoda (Aglaspidida, Pycnogonida and Chelicerata). In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 297–320. Chapman & Hall: London.
[WZ08] Wang, X.-P., & M.-S. Zhu. 2008. Himalmartensus, a new genus of the spider family Amaurobiidae from Nepal (Araneae). Journal of Arachnology 36 (2): 241–250.
[WC17] Wheeler, W. C., J. A. Coddington, L. M. Crowley, D. Dimitrov, P. A. Goloboff, C. E. Griswold, G. Hormiga, L. Prendini, M. J. Ramírez, P. Sierwald, L. Almeida-Silva, F. Alvarez-Padilla, M. A. Arnedo, L. R. Benavides Silva, S. P. Benjamin, J. E. Bond, C. J. Grismado, E. Hasan, M. Hedin, M. A. Izquierdo, F. M. Labarque, J. Ledford, L. Lopardo, W. P. Maddison, J. A. Miller, L. N. Piacentini, N. I. Platnick, D. Polotow, D. Silva-Dávila, N. Scharff, T. Szűts, D. Ubick, C. J. Vink, H. M. Wood & J. Zhang. 2017. The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics 33: 574–616.