Arbanitis crispus

Arbanitis crispus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Arbanitis
Species:
A. crispus
Binomial name
Arbanitis crispus
(Karsch, 1878)
Synonyms

Hermeas crispus Karsch, 1878
Megalas crispus (Karsch, 1878)
Arbanitis scaurus Hickman, 1927
Dyarcyops scaurus (Hickman, 1927)

Arbanitis crispus is a species of armoured trap-door spider in the family Idiopidae, and is endemic to Tasmania.

It was first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1878 as Hermeas crispus in 1985 Barbara Main transferred it to Misgolas, and at the same time synonymised it with Dyarcyops scaurus. In 2017, Michael Rix and others but was transferred to the genus, Arbanitis.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Natural History Museum Bern. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog: Arbanitis crispus (Karsch, 1878)". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  2. ↑ Karsch, F. (1878). Exotisch-araneologisches. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 51: 322-333, 771-826.
  3. ↑ York, Barbara Anne (1977). "Preliminary notes towards a revision of the mygalomorph spider genus Dyarcyops (Ctenizidae)". Australian Entomological Magazine. 4 (4): 69–72. ISSN 0311-1881. Wikidata Q100149725.
  4. ↑ Rix, Michael; Raven, Robert John; York, Barbara Anne; Harrison, Sophie Ellen; Austin, Andrew Donald; Cooper, Steven John Baynard; Harvey, Mark Stephen (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. Wikidata Q56034666.