Arbanitis ornatus

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

Arbanitis ornatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Idiopidae
Genus:	Arbanitis
Species:	A. ornatus
Binomial name
Arbanitis ornatus (Rainbow, 1914)
Synonyms[1]
Idioctis ornata Rainbow, 1914 Aganippe ornata Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 Dyarcyops ornata (Rainbow, 1914) Misgolas ornatus (Rainbow, 1914)[2]

It was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1914 as Idioctis ornata.^[1][3] In 1977, Barbara Main transferred it to the genus, Dyarcyops.^[1][4] In 2017, Michael Rix and others transferred it to the genus, Arbanitis.^[1][5]

References

1. Natural History Museum Bern. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog: Arbanitis ornatus (Rainbow, 1914)". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
2. "GBIF: Arbanitis ornatus (Rainbow, 1914)".
3. W. J. Rainbow (15 August 1914). "Studies in Australian Araneidae. No. 6. The Terretelarinae" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 10 (8): 187–270. doi:10.3853/J.0067-1975.10.1914.901. ISSN 0067-1975. Wikidata Q56196374.
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.