Arbanitis melancholicus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Idiopoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Mygalomorphae Superfamilia: Idiopoidea

Familia: Idiopidae
Subfamilia: Arbanitinae
Tribus: Arbanitini
Genus: Arbanitis
Species: Arbanitis melancholicus

Name

Arbanitis melancholicus (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918)

Type locality: Australia, Clifton Gardens, NSW (33°50'S 151°15'E).

Syntypes: AM. male ♂ and female ♀. VIII.1910. legit R. Pulleine. AM KS1631.

Synonymy

• Dyarcyops melancholicus Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918: 106 (original combination)
• Misgolas melancholicus (Rainbow & Pulleine): Wishart, 2006: 10
• Arbanitis melancholicus (Rainbow): Rix et al., 2017: 569

References

Primary references

• Rainbow, W.J. & Pulleine, R.H. 1918. Australian trap-door spiders. Records of the Australian Museum 12: 81-169. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Rix, M.G., Raven, R.J., Main, B.Y., Harrison, S.E., 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(5): 566-634. DOI: 10.1071/IS16065. Reference page. 
• 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. Full article (PDF). Reference page.