Species Arbanitis elegans (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Arbanitis elegans Rainbow, W.J. & Pulleine, R.H. 1918. Australian trap-door spiders. Records of the Australian Museum 12: 81-169 [24 Dec. 1918] [115] [nomen dubium; considered a nomen dubium by Wishart (2011)].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K40889, KS6261 ♀ adult, Kaianga, Narooma, NSW
  Comment: Its collection locality is “Kaianga”, revised by Wishart (2011) to read Kianga.

 

Generic Combinations

• Misgolas elegans (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918). —
  Main, B.Y. 1985. Mygalomorphae. pp. 1-48 in Walton. D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 3. Mygalomorphae, Araneomorphae (part), Pseudoscorpionida, Amblypygi and Palpigradi. Canberra : Australian Government Printing Service 183 pp. [24]
• Dyarcyops elegans (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918). —
  Main, B.Y. 1977. Preliminary notes towards a revision of the mygalomorph spider genus Dyarcyops (Ctenizidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 4 4: 69-72
• Arbanitis elegans (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from Kianga, Narooma.

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: South East Corner (SEC)

Ecological Descriptors

Fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

 

General References

Wishart, G. 2011. Trapdoor Spiders of the Genus Misgolas (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) in the Illawarra and South Coast Regions of New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 63: 33-51 [49]

 

History of changes

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