Arbanitis rowelli

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

Arbanitis rowelli
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Idiopidae
Genus:	Arbanitis
Species:	A. rowelli
Binomial name
Arbanitis rowelli (Wishart, 2011)
Synonyms[1]
Misgolas rowelli Wishart, 2011

It was first described by Graham Wishart in 2011 as Misgolas rowelli,^[1][2] but was transferred to the genus, Arbanitis, by Michael Rix and others in 2017.^[1][3]

References

1. Natural History Museum Bern. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog: Arbanitis rowelli (Wishart, 2011)". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
2. 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.
3. 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.