Gaius villosus

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Gaius villosus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Gaius
Species:
G. villosus
Binomial name
Gaius villosus
Rainbow, 1914 [1]
Synonyms [1]
  • Anidiops villosus(Rainbow, 1914)

Gaius villosus is a species of spider in the family Idiopidae (armored trapdoor spiders) found in Western Australia in a variety of different habitats. [2]

Originally described in 1914 as Gaius villosus by William Joseph Rainbow, [1] [3] in 1957 it was transferred to Anidiops by Barbara Main [1] [4] (a genus no longer recognized). In 2017, it was returned to Gaius by Rix and others [1] [5] – at the time it was the sole species in the genus, [5] although others have been added since. [1]

Number 16, [6] aged approximately 43 years at death and thought to be the longest-lived spider on record, was a female of this species. [7] [8]

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<i>Gaius</i> (spider) Genus of spiders

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Gen. Gaius Rainbow, 1914", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 16 May 2018
  2. ↑ "Threatened Trapdoor Spiders of the Avon" (PDF). Wheatbelt Natural Resource Management. p. 8. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  3. ↑ Rainbow, W. J. (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. ↑ Main, B. Y. (1957). "Biology of Aganippine trapdoor spiders (Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae)". Australian Journal of Zoology . 5 (4): 402. doi:10.1071/ZO9570402. ISSN   0004-959X. Wikidata   Q99572730.
  5. 1 2 Rix, Michael G.; Raven, Robert J.; Main, Barbara York; Harrison, Sophie E.; Austin, Andrew D.; Cooper, Steven J.B.; Harvey, Mark S. (2017). "The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae : Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level". Invertebrate Systematics. doi:10.1071/IS16065.
  6. ↑ Leanda Denise Mason; Grant Wardell-Johnson; Barbara York Main (2018). "The longest-lived spider: mygalomorphs dig deep, and persevere" (PDF). Pacific Conservation Biology . 24 (2): 203. doi:10.1071/PC18015. ISSN   1038-2097. Wikidata   Q56657531.
  7. ↑ Nelson, Bryan (28 April 2018). "World's longest-lived spider died at the ripe old age of 43". MNN - Mother Nature Network. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  8. ↑ "The extraordinary life and death of the world's oldest known spider". Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 31 December 2021.


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