Belongs within: Mygalomorphae.
The Hexathelidae, funnel web spiders, are a group of medium-sized to large spiders that live in tube or funnel webs under rocks or in crevices (Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman 2007).
Characters (from Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman 2007): Medium-sized to large mygalomorph spiders; cephalic region raised or low; eight eyes; labium provided with numerous cuspules; rastellum absent; three tarsal claws; posterior spinnerets long and slender or short with digitiform apical segment.
Hexathelidae
| i. s.: Rosamygale grauvogeli Selden & Gall 1992S02
| BymainiellaR95
| |--B. lugubris Raven 1978R95
| `--B. terraereginae (Raven 1976)R95
| Mediothele australisWC17
| Scotinoecus cinereopilosusWC17
| Paraembolides cannoniWC17
|--PlesiothelinaeJD-S07
|--Macrothelinae [Macrotheleae]PVD10
| |--StenygrocerusR14
| |--Macrothele calpeianaJD-S07
| |--Porrhothele Simon 1892PVD10
| | |--*P. antipodiana (Walckenaer 1837)PVD10 [=Mygale antipodianaS99; incl. M. quoyiS99]
| | |--P. blanda Forster 1968PVD10
| | |--P. huttoni [=Macrothele huttoni]S99
| | |--P. insignipesS99
| | |--P. moana Forster 1968PVD10
| | |--P. modesta Forster 1968PVD10
| | `--P. quadrigyna Forster 1968PVD10
| |--EntomotheleS89
| | |--*E. guianensis (Walck. 1837) [=Mygale guianensis]S89
| | `--E. pusilla Simon 1889S89
| |--PhyxioschemaS89
| `--ThelecorisS89
`--Hexathele Ausserer 1871 [Hexathelae, Hexathelinae]PVD10
|--*H. hochstetteri Ausserer 1871PVD10
|--H. cantuaria Forster 1968PVD10
|--H. cavernicola Forster 1968PVD10
|--H. cinereopilosaS89
|--H. exemplar Parrott 1960PVD10
|--H. huka Forster 1968PVD10
|--H. huttoni Hogg 1908PVD10
|--H. kohua Forster 1968PVD10
|--H. maitaia Forster 1968PVD10
|--H. nigra Forster 1968PVD10
|--H. otira Forster 1968PVD10
|--H. para Forster 1968PVD10
|--H. petriei Goyen 1887PVD10
|--H. pukea Forster 1968PVD10
|--H. putuna Forster 1968PVD10
|--H. ramsayi Forster 1968PVD10
|--H. rupicola Forster 1968PVD10
|--H. taumara Forster 1968PVD10
|--H. waipa Forster 1968PVD10
|--H. waita Forster 1968PVD10
`--H. wiltoni Forster 1968PVD10
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[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).
[R14] Rainbow, W. J. 1914. Studies in Australian Araneidae, no. 6, the Terretelariae. Records of the Australian Museum 10 (8): 187–270.
[R95] Raven, R. J. 1995. Coxal glands of spiders of the genera Bymainiella, Atrax and Namea (Hexathelidae, Dipluridae, Mygalomorphae). Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 52: 67–71.
[S02] Selden, P. A. 2002. First British Mesozoic spider, from Cretaceous amber of the Isle of Wight, southern England. Palaeontology 45 (5): 973–983.
[S89] Simon, E. 1889. Voyage de M. E. Simon au Venezuela (Décembre 1887–Avril 1888). 4e mémoire. Arachnides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 6e série 9: 169–220, pls 1–3.
[S99] Simon, E. 1899. Ergebnisse einer Reise nach dem Pacific (Schauinsland 1896–1897). Arachnoideen. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie un Biologie der Thiere 12 (4): 411–437.
[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.