Arbanitis hirsutus is a species of armoured trap-door spider in the family Idiopidae,[1] and is endemic to New South Wales and Queensland.[2]

Arbanitis hirsutus
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. hirsutus
Binomial name
Arbanitis hirsutus
Synonyms[1]

Misgolas hirsutus (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918)
Dyarcyops hirsutus (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918)

It was first described by William Joseph Rainbow and Robert Henry Pulleine in 1918 as Arbanitis hirsutus,[1][3] but was transferred to the genus, Dyarcyops, in 1977 by Barbara Main[1][4] and then in 2017 Michael Rix and others returned it to the genus, Arbanitis.[1][5]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Natural History Museum Bern. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog: Arbanitis hirsutus Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Australian Faunal Directory: Arbanitis hirsutus". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  3. ^ W. J. Rainbow; R. H. Pulleine (24 December 1918). "Australian Trapdoor spiders" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 12 (7): 81–169. doi:10.3853/J.0067-1975.12.1918.882. ISSN 0067-1975. Wikidata Q56196385.
  4. ^ Barbara York Main (December 1977). "Preliminary notes towards a revision of the mygalomorph spider genus Dyarcyops (Ctenizidae)". Australian Entomological Magazine. 4 (4): 69–72. ISSN 0311-1881. Wikidata Q100149725.
  5. ^ 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.