Species Arbanitis rapax (Karsch, 1878)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Misgolas rapax Karsch, F. 1878. Exotisch-araneologisches. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften Halle 51: 323-333, 771-826 [823].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB 2094 ♀ adult (dried, pinned, deteriorated specimen, possibly collected 1874–75, Edward Damel (Daemel)), NSW.
• Arbanitis fuscipes Rainbow, W.J. 1914. Studies in Australian Araneidae. No. 6. The Terretelariae. Records of the Australian Museum 10: 187-270 [15 Aug. 1914] [210] [nomen dubium; considered as nomen dubium by Wishart & Rowell (2008)].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K30279, KS6336 ♀ adult, Willoughby, NSW.
• Dyarcyops ionthus Rainbow, W.J. & Pulleine, R.H. 1918. Australian trap-door spiders. Records of the Australian Museum 12: 81-169 [24 Dec. 1918] [107] [nomen dubium; considered nomen dubium by Wishart & Rowell (2008)].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K41284, KS6337 ♀ adult, Burwood, NSW.
• Arbanitis chisholmi Hickman, V.V. 1933. A new ctenizid spider from New South Wales. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 12: 210-216 figs 1-4 [Aug. 1933] [212] [nomen dubium; considered as nomen dubium by Wishart & Rowell (2008)].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K66900, KS6260 ♀ adult, Comboyne, NSW.
• Misgolas hubbardi Wishart, G. 1992. New species of the trapdoor spider genus Misgolas Karsch (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) with a review of the tube-building species. Records of the Australian Museum 44: 263-278 [264-266 figs 1-6, 28, 29].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM KS22301 ♂, "Scalloway", Willowvale, near Gerringong, NSW [34°44'S 150°47'E].
  Paratype(s) AM KS22302 ♀ allotype, locality as holotype
  Comment: additional paratype males and females in AM, Sydney; refer to Wishart (1992) for details.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [25]
• Wishart, G. & Rowell, D.M. 2008. Trapdoor Spiders of the genus Misgolas (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from eastern New South Wales, with notes on genetic variation. Records of the Australian Museum 60: 45-86 [85]

 

Generic Combinations

• Arbanitis rapax (Karsch, 1878).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Illawarra region only according to Wishart (2006).

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Fossorial, open forest, predator, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Burrow with open (no trapdoor) collar-like entrance especially in undergrowth and grassy areas.

 

General References

Main, B.Y. 1964. Spiders of Australia. Brisbane : Jacaranda : Axiom 124 pp. [reprinted 1981]

Main, B.Y. 1976. Spiders. Sydney : Collins 296 pp. (natural history, as Dyarcyops fuscipes)

Mascord, R. 1970. Australian Spiders in Colour. Balgowlah, NSW : Reed 112 pp. (natural history, as Dyarcyops fuscipes)

Musgrave, A. 1949. Spiders harmful to man. Aust. Mus. Leaflet No. 16: 1–13. (record of bite, as Arbanitis fuscipes)

Wishart, G. 2006. Trapdoor spiders of the genus Misgolas (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) in the Sydney region, Australia, with notes on synonymies attributed to M. rapax. Records of the Australian Museum 58: 1-18 [1-18]

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 [38-39]

Wishart, G. & Rowell, D.M. 2008. Trapdoor Spiders of the genus Misgolas (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from eastern New South Wales, with notes on genetic variation. Records of the Australian Museum 60: 45-86 [45-86]

 

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