Species Idiommata scintillans (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lampropodus scintillans Rainbow, W.J. & Pulleine, R.H. 1918. Australian trap-door spiders. Records of the Australian Museum 12: 81-169 [24 Dec. 1918] [135 pls 17-18, 23].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KS5191 ♂ adult, Black Hill, Mt Lofty Range, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) AM KS5191, K40921, KS5192 ♀ adult ♀immature (the latter lost; female paralectotype probably not same species as male lectotype; male has maxillary stridulating organ which female lacks).

  Subsequent designation references:

  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. [13].

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Mt Lofty Range, possibly Flinders Range.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs

Ecological Descriptors

Fossorial, open scrub, predator, terrestrial, woodland.

 

General References

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

Rainbow, W.J. & Pulleine, R.H. 1918. Australian trap-door spiders. Records of the Australian Museum 12: 81-169 [24 Dec. 1918] (biology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Oct-2020		29-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
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