Arbanitis echo is a species of armoured trap-door spider in the family Idiopidae, and is endemic to New South Wales and Queensland.[1]

Arbanitis echo
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Arbanitis
Species:
A. echo
Binomial name
Arbanitis echo
(Raven & Wishart, 2006)
Synonyms[1]

Misgolas echo Raven & Wishart, 2006

It was first described by Robert Raven & Graham Wishart in 2006 as Misgolas echo,[1][2] but was transferred to the genus, Arbanitis, by Michael Rix and others in 2017.[1][3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Natural History Museum Bern. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog: Arbanitis echo (Raven & Wishart, 2006)". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  2. ^ Robert J. Raven; Graham Wishart (2006). "The trapdoor spider Arbanitis L. Koch (Idiopidae: Mygalomorphae) in Australia" (PDF). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 51: 531–557. ISSN 0079-8835. Wikidata Q110404264.
  3. ^ Michael G. Rix; Robert J. Raven; Barbara Y. Main; Sophie E. Harrison; Andrew D. Austin; Steven J. B. Cooper; Mark S. Harvey (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. ISSN 1445-5226. Wikidata Q56034666.