Arbanitis monteithi

Arbanitis monteithi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Idiopidae
Genus:	Arbanitis
Species:	A. monteithi
Binomial name
Arbanitis monteithi (Raven & Wishart, 2006)
Synonyms [1]
Misgolas monteithi Raven & Wishart, 2006

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

It was first described by Robert Raven & Graham Wishart in 2006 as Misgolas monteithi, ^{[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 monteithi (Raven & Wishart, 2006)". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
2. Robert J. Raven; Graham Wishart (2006). "The trapdoor spider Arbanitis L. Koch (Idiopidae: Mygalomorphae) in Australia" (PDF). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature . Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 51: 531–557. ISSN   0079-8835. Wikidata   Q110404264.
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.