Arbanitis melancholicus

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

Arbanitis melancholicus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Idiopidae
Genus:	Arbanitis
Species:	A. melancholicus
Binomial name
Arbanitis melancholicus Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918
Synonyms[1]
Dyarcyops melancholicus Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 Misgolas melancholicus (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918)

It was first described by William Joseph Rainbow and Robert Henry Pulleine in 1918 as Dyarcyops melancholicus.^[1][3] However, in 1985 Barbara Main placed it in synonymy with Misgolas rapax^[1][4] In 2006, Wishart recognised it once more as a separate species and it became Misgolas melancholicus.^[1][5] This was reconfirmed by Wishart in 2011.^[1][6] In 2017 Michael Rix and others returned it to the genus, Arbanitis.^[1][2][7]

References

1. Natural History Museum Bern. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog: Arbanitis melancholicus (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918)". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
2. "Australian Faunal Directory: Arbanitis melancholicus". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 7 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. 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.
5. Graham Wishart (2006). "Trapdoor spiders of the genus Misgolas (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) in the Sydney region, Australia, with notes on synonymies attributed to M. rapax" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 58 (1): 1–18. doi:10.3853/J.0067-1975.58.2006.1446. ISSN 0067-1975. Wikidata Q92173773.
6. Graham Wishart (29 June 2011). "Trapdoor spiders of the genus Misgolas (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) in the Illawarra and south coast regions of New South Wales, Australia". Records of the Australian Museum (in English and English). 63 (1): 33–51. doi:10.3853/J.0067-1975.63.2011.1553. ISSN 0067-1975. Wikidata Q54561054.
7. 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.

External links

• Data related to Arbanitis melancholicus at Wikispecies