Arbanitis wayorum

Arbanitis wayorum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Arbanitis
Species:
A. wayorum
Binomial name
Arbanitis wayorum
(Wishart, 2006)
Synonyms
  • Misgolas wayorum Wishart, 2006

Arbanitis wayorum 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 in 2006 as Misgolas wayorum, but was transferred to the genus, Arbanitis, by Michael Rix and others in 2017. The species epithet honours the Way family from Yowie Bay.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Natural History Museum Bern. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog: Arbanitis wayorum (Wishart, 2006)". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  2. 1 2 Wishart, Graham (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. Wikidata Q92173773.
  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.