Idiosoma rhaphiduca
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Idiopidae |
| Genus: | Idiosoma |
| Species: | I. rhaphiduca |
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Idiosoma rhaphiduca is a species of mygalomorph spider in the Idiopidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1918 by Australian arachnologists William Joseph Rainbow and Robert Henry Pulleine.[1][2]
Distribution and habitat
The species occurs in south-west Western Australia in open forest habitats, from the valleys of the Darling Scarp southwards to Bunbury and south-eastwards to Albany. The type locality is Kings Park in Perth.[1][2]
Behaviour
The spiders are fossorial, terrestrial predators. They construct burrows with trapdoors in wet creek banks, the flood flats of watercourses and on patches of open ground in clay soils.[2]
References
- ^ a b c Rainbow, WJ; Pulleine, RH (1918). "Australian trap-door spiders". Records of the Australian Museum. 12: 81–169 [93].
- ^ a b c "Species Idiosoma rhaphiduca (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918)". Australian Faunal Directory. Dept of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia. 2023-02-03. Retrieved 2023-09-01.