Genus Euoplos Rainbow, 1914

Museums

Regional Maps

• Euoplos Rainbow, W.J. 1914. Studies in Australian Araneidae. No. 6. The Terretelariae. Records of the Australian Museum 10: 187-270 [15 Aug. 1914] [217] [Evoplus was an invalid emendation by Bonnet and perpetuated in Main (1985)].

  Type species:

   Euoplos spinnipes Rainbow, 1914 by monotypy.
• Bancroftiana Rainbow, W.J. & Pulleine, R.H. 1918. Australian trap-door spiders. Records of the Australian Museum 12: 81-169 [24 Dec. 1918] [127].

  Type species:

   Bancroftiana speciosa Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 by monotypy.
• Albaniana Rainbow, W.J. & Pulleine, R.H. 1918. Australian trap-door spiders. Records of the Australian Museum 12: 81-169 [24 Dec. 1918] [122].

  Type species:

   Albaniana inornata Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 by subsequent designation, see Petrunkevitch, A. 1928. Systema Aranearum. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 29: 1-270 [Jan. 1928] [63].
• Armadalia Rainbow, W.J. & Pulleine, R.H. 1918. Australian trap-door spiders. Records of the Australian Museum 12: 81-169 [24 Dec. 1918] [129].

  Type species:

   Armadalia ornata Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 by subsequent designation, see Petrunkevitch, A. 1928. Systema Aranearum. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 29: 1-270 [Jan. 1928] [63].
• Tambouriniana Rainbow, W.J. & Pulleine, R.H. 1918. Australian trap-door spiders. Records of the Australian Museum 12: 81-169 [24 Dec. 1918] [120].

  Type species:

   Tambouriniana variabilis Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Finke (FIN), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; Qld: Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET) ; SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN) ; WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Tanami (TAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, S Gulfs
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

General References

Rix, M.G., Wilson, J.D., & Harvey, M.S. 2019. A revision of the white-headed spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Euoplos (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Arbanitinae): a remarkable lineage of rare mygalomorph spiders from the south-western Australian biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Arachnology 47: 63-76 [65]

Wilson, J. & Rix, M. 2021. Systematics of the Australian golden trapdoor spiders of the Euoplos variabilis-group (Mygalomorphae : Idiopidae : Euoplini): parapatry and sympatry between closely related species in subtropical Queensland. Invertebrate Systematics 35: 514-541

Wilson, J.D., Raven, R.J., Schmidt, D.J., Hughes, J.M. & Rix, M.G. 2020. Total-evidence analysis of an undescribed fauna: resolving the evolution and classification of Australia′s golden trapdoor spiders (Idiopidae: Arbanitinae: Euoplini). Cladistics 2020 36: 543-568 [557, Figs 1a,b,e–h and 6]

 

Common Name References

Raven, R. J. & Gallon, J.G. 1987. An easy guide to the common spiders of the Northeast and their allies. Brisbane : Queensland Museum pp. 285-305. [295] (Golden Trapdoor Spider)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	IDIOPIDAE Simon, 1889	06-May-2022	MODIFIED
05-Feb-2020	IDIOPIDAE Simon, 1889	19-Jan-2020	MODIFIED	Lyn Randall
15-Oct-2020		29-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020		11-May-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)