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Arbanitis villosus

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Arbanitis villosus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Arbanitis
Species:
A. villosus
Binomial name
Arbanitis villosus
(Rainbow, 1914)
Synonyms[1]

Megalosara villosa Rainbow, 1914
Misgolas villosus (Rainbow, 1914)

Arbanitis villosus is a species of armoured trap-door spider in the family Idiopidae, and is endemic to New South Wales.[1]

It was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1914 as Megalosara villosa.[1][2] In 2006, Graham Wishart transferred it to the genus, Misgolas.[1][3] In 2017, Michael Rix and others transferred it to the genus, Arbanitis.[1][4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Natural History Museum Bern. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog: Arbanitis villosus (Rainbow, 1914)". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  2. ^ W. J. Rainbow (15 August 1914). "Studies in Australian Araneidae. No. 6. The Terretelarinae" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 10 (8): 187–270. doi:10.3853/J.0067-1975.10.1914.901. ISSN 0067-1975. Wikidata Q56196374.
  3. ^ Graham Wishart (2006). "Trapdoor spiders of the genus Misgolas (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) in the Sydney region, Australia, with notes on synonymies attributed to M. rapax" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 58 (1): 1–18. doi:10.3853/J.0067-1975.58.2006.1446. ISSN 0067-1975. Wikidata Q92173773.
  4. ^ Michael G. Rix; Robert J. Raven; Barbara Y. Main; Sophie E. Harrison; Andrew D. Austin; Steven J. B. Cooper; Mark S. Harvey (2017). "The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae : Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level". Invertebrate Systematics. 31 (5): 566–634. doi:10.1071/IS16065. ISSN 1445-5226. Wikidata Q56034666.