Euctenizidae
| Euctenizidae | |
|---|---|
| Aptostichus sp. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Clade: | Avicularioidea |
| Family: | Euctenizidae Raven, 1985 |
| Diversity | |
| 8 genera, 79 species | |
| blue: reported countries (WSC) green: observation hotspots (iNaturalist) | |
The Euctenizidae are a family of mygalomorph spiders. Originally created as a subfamily of Cyrtaucheniidae by Robert Raven in 1985, it was established as a family by Bond et al. in 2012.
They are now considered to be more closely related to Idiopidae.