Arbanitis watsonorum

Arbanitis watsonorum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Arbanitis
Species:
A. watsonorum
Binomial name
Arbanitis watsonorum
(Wishart & Rowell 2008)
Synonyms
  • Misgolas thompsonae Wishart & Rowell, 2008

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

It was first described by Wishart and Rowell in 2008 as Misgolas watsonorum, but was transferred to the genus, Arbanitis, by Michael Rix and others in 2017. The species epithet, watsonorum, honours Ken and Sue Watson.

Description

The carapace of the male holotype is 6.75 mm long by 5.15 mm wide, with an abdomen 7.74 mm by 4.55 mm. The female paratype has a carapace which is 12.85 mm by 9.33 mm and an abdomen 18.82 mm by 11.76 mm.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Natural History Museum Bern. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog: Arbanitis thompsonae (Wishart & Rowell, 2008)". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Wishart, Graham; Rowell, David (2008). "Trapdoor Spiders of the genus Misgolas (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from eastern New South Wales, with notes on genetic variation" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 60 (1): 45–86. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.60.2008.1495. Wikidata Q92173811.
  3. ↑ 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.