Nemesiidae Simon, 1889

Huey, Joel A., Rix, Michael G., Wilson, Jeremy D., Hillyer, Mia J. & Harvey, Mark S., 2019, Open-holed trapdoor spiders of the genus Teyl (Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae Anamini) from Western Australia’s Pilbara bioregion: a new species and expanded phylogenetic assessment, Zootaxa 4674 (3), pp. 349-362 : 355

Family Nemesiidae Simon, 1889

Tribe Anamini Simon, 1889

Anamae Simon, 1889: 178. Type genus Aname L. Koch, 1873 .

Remarks. The tribe Anamini is an unambiguously monophyletic assemblage of nine genera, characterized by a strongly developed posterior maxillary heel bearing a field of cuspules ( Fig. 8 ), in combination with an absence of tarsal claw tufts, and two rows of teeth on the paired claws (both family-level characters; see Raven 1985; Harvey et al. 2018). The burrows of these spiders are almost exclusively open, and often include a secondary escape shaft which branches off from the burrow proper (hence the other commonly applied name of ‘wishbone’ spiders; see Main 1993). The tribe is distributed Australia-wide, and the Australian fauna is remarkably diverse, with 100–200 new species (and likely many more) still to be described ( Castalanelli et al. 2014; Harvey et al. 2018; MSH, MGR, JAH, unpublished data).

Figures

FIGURES 4–13. Teyl heuretes sp. nov., male holotype (WAM T91918) from Weeli Wolli Creek region, Hamersley Range (Western Australia; PIL), somatic morphology: 4–5, carapace and abdomen, dorsal view; 6, cephalothorax, lateral view; 7, eyes, dorsal view; 8, mouthparts, ventral view; 9–10, cephalothorax and abdomen, ventral view; 11, leg I, prolateral view; 12, leg I tibia, prolateral view; 13, leg I tibia, retrolateral view. Scale bars = 2.0 mm.