Biology:Arbanitis melancholicus

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Short description: Species of spider

Arbanitis melancholicus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Arbanitis
Species:
A. melancholicus
Binomial name
Arbanitis melancholicus
Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918
Synonyms[1]

Dyarcyops melancholicus Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918
Misgolas melancholicus (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918)

Arbanitis melancholicus is a species of armoured trap-door spider in the family Idiopidae,[1] and is endemic to New South Wales.[2]

It was first described by William Joseph Rainbow and Robert Henry Pulleine in 1918 as Dyarcyops melancholicus.[1][3] However, in 1985 Barbara Main placed it in synonymy with Misgolas rapax[1][4] In 2006, Wishart recognised it once more as a separate species and it became Misgolas melancholicus.[1][5] This was reconfirmed by Wishart in 2011.[1][6] In 2017 Michael Rix and others returned it to the genus, Arbanitis.[1][2][7]

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q95573576 entry