Biology:Arbanitis villosus

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Short description: Species of spider

Arbanitis villosus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Arbanitis
Species:
A. villosus
Binomial name
Arbanitis villosus
(Rainbow, 1914)
Synonyms[1]

Megalosara villosa Rainbow, 1914
Misgolas villosus (Rainbow, 1914)

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

It was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1914 as Megalosara villosa.[1][2] In 2006, Graham Wishart transferred it to the genus, Misgolas.[1][3] In 2017, Michael Rix and others transferred it to the genus, Arbanitis.[1][4]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q95573581 entry