Belongs within: Avicularoidea.
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 1992 S02
| Bymainiella R95
| |--B. lugubris Raven 1978 R95
| `--B. terraereginae (Raven 1976) R95
|--Plesiothelinae JD-S07
|--Macrothelinae [Macrotheleae] PVD10
| |--Stenygrocerus R14
| |--Macrothele calpeiana JD-S07
| |--Porrhothele Simon 1892 PVD10
| | |--*P. antipodiana (Walckenaer 1837) PVD10 [=Mygale antipodiana S99; incl. M. quoyi S99]
| | |--P. blanda Forster 1968 PVD10
| | |--P. huttoni [=Macrothele huttoni] S99
| | |--P. insignipes S99
| | |--P. moana Forster 1968 PVD10
| | |--P. modesta Forster 1968 PVD10
| | `--P. quadrigyna Forster 1968 PVD10
| |--Entomothele S89
| | |--*E. guianensis (Walck. 1837) [=Mygale guianensis] S89
| | `--E. pusilla Simon 1889 S89
| |--Phyxioschema S89
| `--Thelecoris S89
|--Atracinae [Atraceae] B96
| |--Styphlopis Rainbow 1913 R13
| | `--*S. insularis Rainbow 1913 R13
| |--Atrax R14
| | |--A. formidabilis Rainbow 1914 R14 [=Hadronyche formidabilis B96]
| | |--A. modesta R14
| | |--A. robustus (Cambridge 1877) B96
| | `--A. versuta Rainbow 1914 R14 [=Hadronyche versutus B96]
| `--Hadronyche R14
| |--H. cerberea R14
| `--H. infensa FF99
`--Hexathele Ausserer 1871 [Hexathelae, Hexathelinae] PVD10
|--*H. hochstetteri Ausserer 1871 PVD10
|--H. cantuaria Forster 1968 PVD10
|--H. cavernicola Forster 1968 PVD10
|--H. cinereopilosa S89
|--H. exemplar Parrott 1960 PVD10
|--H. huka Forster 1968 PVD10
|--H. huttoni Hogg 1908 PVD10
|--H. kohua Forster 1968 PVD10
|--H. maitaia Forster 1968 PVD10
|--H. nigra Forster 1968 PVD10
|--H. otira Forster 1968 PVD10
|--H. para Forster 1968 PVD10
|--H. petriei Goyen 1887 PVD10
|--H. pukea Forster 1968 PVD10
|--H. putuna Forster 1968 PVD10
|--H. ramsayi Forster 1968 PVD10
|--H. rupicola Forster 1968 PVD10
|--H. taumara Forster 1968 PVD10
|--H. waipa Forster 1968 PVD10
|--H. waita Forster 1968 PVD10
`--H. wiltoni Forster 1968 PVD10
*Type species of generic name indicated
REFERENCES
[B96] Brunet, B. 1996. Spiderwatch: A Guide to Australian Spiders. Reed New Holland: Sydney.
[FF99] Forster, R., & L. Forster. 1999. Spiders of New Zealand and their World-wide Kin. University of Otago Press: Dunedin (New Zealand).
[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).
[R13] Rainbow, W. J. 1913. Arachnida from the Solomon Islands. Records of the Australian Museum 10 (1): 1–16.
[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.
[S99] 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. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie un Biologie der Thiere 12 (4): 411–437.
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