Idiosoma rhaphiduca is a species of mygalomorph spider in the Idiopidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1918 by Australian arachnologists William Joseph Rainbow and Robert Henry Pulleine.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Idiopidae |
| Genus: | Idiosoma |
| Species: | I. rhaphiduca
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Distribution and habitat edit
The species occurs in south-west Western Australia in open forest habitats, from the valleys of the Darling Scarp southwards to Bunbury and south-eastwards to Albany. The type locality is Kings Park in Perth.[1][2]
Behaviour edit
The spiders are fossorial, terrestrial predators. They construct burrows with trapdoors in wet creek banks, the flood flats of watercourses and on patches of open ground in clay soils.[2]
References edit
- ^ a b c Rainbow, WJ; Pulleine, RH (1918). "Australian trap-door spiders". Records of the Australian Museum. 12: 81–169 [93].
- ^ a b c "Species Idiosoma rhaphiduca (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918)". Australian Faunal Directory. Dept of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia. 2023-02-03. Retrieved 2023-09-01.