Blakistonia is a genus of Australian armoured trapdoor spiders that was first described by Henry Roughton Hogg in 1902.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Idiopidae |
| Genus: | Blakistonia Hogg, 1902[1] |
| Type species | |
| B. aurea Hogg, 1902
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| Species | |
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20, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
editAs of May 2019[update] the genus contained twenty species from the states of New South Wales (NSW), Queensland (QLD), South Australia (SA), Victoria (VIC) or Western Australia (WA):[1]
- B. aurea Hogg, 1902 (type) – NSW, SA, VIC
- B. bassi Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA
- B. bella Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA
- B. birksi Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA, VIC
- B. carnarvon Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – QLD
- B. emmottorum Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – QLD
- B. gemmelli Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA
- B. hortoni Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA
- B. mainae Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – WA
- B. maryae Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA
- B. newtoni Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA
- B. nullarborensis Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – WA
- B. olea Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – WA
- B. parva Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA
- B. pidax Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA
- B. plata Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – QLD
- B. raveni Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – QLD
- B. tariae Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – WA
- B. tunstilli Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA
- B. wingellina Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – WA
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Blakistonia.
- ^ a b c "Gen. Blakistonia Hogg, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
- ^ Main, B. Y. (1985). "Further studies on the systematics for Ctenizid trapdoor spiders: A review of the Australian genera (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae)". Australian Journal of Zoology. 108 (suppl. Ser): 39. doi:10.1071/AJZS108.
- ^ Hogg, H. R. (1902). "On some additions to the Australian spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 72 (II, 1): 121–142 [131].