Species Arbanitis hirsutus (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Arbanitis hirsutus Rainbow, W.J. & Pulleine, R.H. 1918. Australian trap-door spiders. Records of the Australian Museum 12: 81-169 [24 Dec. 1918] [116].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K40886, KS6263 ♀ adult, Kedron Brook, Brisbane, QLD.

 

Generic Combinations

• Misgolas hirsutus (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918).
• Arbanitis hirsutus (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from MacPherson Ranges e.g. Tamborine Mtn, Lamington Plateau, Tooloom Scrub, Brisbane area, Mt Glorious.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, fossorial, predator, tall open forest, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Burrow with no trapdoor.

 

General References

Main, B.Y. 1976. Spiders. Sydney : Collins 296 pp. (natural history, habitat, burrow structure as Dyarcyops hirsutus)

Main, B.Y. 1977. Preliminary notes towards a revision of the mygalomorph spider genus Dyarcyops (Ctenizidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 4 4: 69-72 (taxonomy)

 

History of changes

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