Species Cataxia pulleinei (Rainbow, 1914)

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Species Cataxia pulleinei (Rainbow, 1914)

Homogona pulleinei Rainbow, W.J. 1914. Studies in Australian Araneidae. No. 6. The Terretelariae. Records of the Australian Museum 10: 187-270 [15 Aug. 1914] [189].
Type data:
Holotype AM K18299, KS6394 ♀ adult, Lismore, NSW.

Generic Combinations

Cataxia pulleinei (Rainbow, 1914). —
Raven, R.J. 1985. The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and Systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182(1): 1-180 [Date published December 5, 1985] [154]
Main, B.Y. 1993. From flood avoidance to foraging: adaptive shifts in trapdoor spider behaviour. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33: 599–606 [600] (changed combination not recognised)
Rix, M.G., Raven, R.J., Main, B.Y., Harrison, S., Austin, A.D., Cooper, S.J.B. & Harvey, M.S. 2017. The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae : Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level. Invertebrate Systematics 31: 566–634 [626] (referral to Cataxia recognised)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

In south-eastern QLD-north-eastern NSW border area, e.g. MacPherson Ranges.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Burrow with thin flap-like trapdoor in soil, logs and tree butts.

General References

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

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	Action Date	Action Type
15-Oct-2020	29-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020	11-May-2011	MODIFIED
	12-Feb-2010	(import)

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