A REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN METALTELLINES (ARANEAE, AMAUROBIOIDEA, AMPHINECTIDAE, METALTELLINAE)

Seven new metaltelline genera (Quemusia, Magua, Keera, Jalkaraburra, B uyina, Cunnawarra and Penaoola) are described with the following new s pecies: Q. aquilonia, Q. austrina, Q, raveni, Q. cordillera, M. wianga ree, K. longipalpis, J. alta, B. halifax, B. yeatesi, C. grayi, C. cas sisi, P. algida and P. madida. Patterns of the male palpal sclerites i n eight Australian amaurobioids and Amaurobioides are illustrated and discussed. Cladistic analyses of the relationships between the Austral ian metaltelline species suggest that there are two clades, one of whi ch includes the South American genera; it indicates that Calacadia is more closely related to some of the Australian genera than it is to Me taltella. The metaltellines are transferred from the Amaurobiidae to t he Amphinectidae on the basis that they appear to be more closely rela ted to genera in this family than to Amaurobius fenestralis, the outgr oup in the cladistic analyses.