Arbanitis is a genus of Australian armoured trapdoor spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1874.[4]

Arbanitis
A. rapax
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Arbanitis
L. Koch, 1874[1]
Type species
A. longipes
(L. Koch, 1873)
Species

61, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species edit

As of May 2019 the genus contained sixty-one species found in New South Wales (NSW), Queensland (QLD), South Australia (SA) or Tasmania (TAS):[1]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Arbanitis L. Koch, 1874". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  2. ^ a b c Main, B. Y. (1985). "Further studies on the systematics for Ctenizid trapdoor spiders: a review of the Australian genera (Araneae : Mygalomorphae : Ctenizidae)". Australian Journal of Zoology. Supplementary Series. 33 (108): 33. doi:10.1071/AJZS108. ISSN 0310-9089. Wikidata Q64438005.
  3. ^ Rix, M. G.; et al. (2017). "The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae : Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level". Invertebrate Systematics. 31 (5): 577. doi:10.1071/IS16065. ISSN 1445-5226. Wikidata Q56034666.
  4. ^ Koch, L. (1874). Die Arachniden Australiens.