Arbanitis maculosus is a species of armoured trap-door spider in the family Idiopidae,[1] and is endemic to New South Wales.[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: | Arbanitis |
| Species: | A. maculosus
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| Binomial name | |
| Arbanitis maculosus | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Misgolas maculosus (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918) | |
It was first described by William Joseph Rainbow and Robert Henry Pulleine in 1918 as Dyarcyops maculosus,[1][3] but was transferred to the genus, Misgolas, in 2006 by Wishart[1][4] and then in 2017 Michael Rix and others transferred it to the genus, Arbanitis.[1][5]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e Natural History Museum Bern. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog: Arbanitis maculosus (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918)". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
- ^ "Australian Faunal Directory: Arbanitis hirsutus". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
- ^ W. J. Rainbow; R. H. Pulleine (24 December 1918). "Australian Trapdoor spiders" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 12 (7): 81–169. doi:10.3853/J.0067-1975.12.1918.882. ISSN 0067-1975. Wikidata Q56196385.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.