Cycloctenus is currently the only genus in the family Cycloctenidae in Australia.
Cycloctenid Ground Spiders
Cycloctenidae Simon, 1898
Type genus: Cycloctenus L. Koch, 1878
(after Wheeler et al. 2017): Araneomorphae with three claws, simple posterior tracheae, a complex retrolateral tibial apophysis and a hyaline conductor on the male palp. At least Cycloctenus and Toxopsiella have a strongly recurved anterior eye row, and Cycloctenus a laterigrade habitus, resembling Ctenidae.
Publications
Wheeler WC, Coddington JA, Crowley LM, Dimitrov D, Goloboff PA, Griswold CE, Hormiga G, Prendini L, Ramírez MJ, Sierwald P, Almeida-Silva LM, Álvarez-Padilla F, Arnedo MA, Benavides LR, Benjamin SP, Bond JE, Grismado CJ, Hasan E, Hedin M, Izquierdo MA, La (2017): The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics. 33: 576 - 616DOI
Araneae (Spiders)
- Actinopodidae
- Anamidae
- Araneae fam. indet.
- Araneidae
- Archaeidae
- Argyronetidae
- Arkyidae
- Barychelidae
- Cheiracanthiidae
- Clubionidae
- Corinnidae
- Cycloctenidae
- Deinopidae
- Desidae
- Dictynidae
- Filistatidae
- Gnaphosidae
- Halonoproctidae
- Hersiliidae
- Idiopidae
- Lamponidae
- Linyphiidae
- Lycosidae
- Mimetidae
- Miturgidae
- Mysmenidae
- Nicodamidae
- Oecobiidae
- Oonopidae
- Oxyopidae
- Philodromidae
- Pholcidae
- Pisauridae
- Prodidomidae
- Salticidae
- Scytodidae
- Segestriidae
- Selenopidae
- Sparassidae
- Symphytognathidae
- Tetrablemmidae
- Tetragnathidae
- Theridiidae
- Thomisidae
- Trachelidae
- Trachycosmidae
- Trochanteriidae
- Uloboridae
- Zodariidae
- Zoropsidae
All classes
- Arachnida
- Crustacea
- Entognatha
- Gastropoda
- Insecta
- Orthoptera - Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
- Hymenoptera excl. Formicidae (bees and wasps)
- Blattodea s. str. (Cockroaches)
- Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Dermaptera (earwigs)
- Diptera (flies, mosquitos)
- Entomobryomorpha (slender springtails)
- Hemiptera - Heteroptera (True Bugs)
- Hemiptera - Sternorrhyncha (aphids, scales etc.)
- Hemiptera - Auchenorrhyncha (cicadas, planthoppers)
- Hymenoptera - Formicidae (Ants)
- Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
- Zygentoma (silverfish)
- Myriapoda