Arbanitis andrewsi

Arbanitis andrewsi is a species of armoured trap-door spider in the family Idiopidae, and is endemic to South Australia.^[1]

Arbanitis andrewsi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Idiopidae
Genus:	Arbanitis
Species:	A. andrewsi
Binomial name
Arbanitis andrewsi (Hogg, 1902)
Synonyms[1]
Dyarcyops andrewsi Hogg, 1902 Misgolas andrewsi (Hogg, 1902) Arbanitis andrewsi (Hogg, 1902)

It was first described by Henry Roughton Hogg in 1902 as Dyarcyops andrewsi,^[1][2] but was transferred to the genus, Misgolas, by Barbara Main in 1985^[1][3] and then to the genus, Arbanitis, by Michael Rix and others in 2017.^[1][4]

References

1. Natural History Museum Bern. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog: Arbanitis andrewsi". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
2. 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, Pl. XIII.
3. BY Main (1985). "Further studies on the systematics for Ctenizid trapdoor spiders: a review of the Australian genera (Araneae : Mygalomorphae : Ctenizidae)". Australian Journal of Zoology. Supplementary Series. 33 (108): 1–84. doi:10.1071/AJZS108. ISSN 0310-9089. Wikidata Q64438005.
4. 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.