Blakistonia is a genus of Australian armoured trapdoor spiders that was first described by Henry Roughton Hogg in 1902.[3]

Blakistonia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Blakistonia
Hogg, 1902[1]
Type species
B. aurea
Hogg, 1902
Species

20, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

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As of May 2019 the genus contained twenty species from the states of New South Wales (NSW), Queensland (QLD), South Australia (SA), Victoria (VIC) or Western Australia (WA):[1]

  • B. aurea Hogg, 1902 (type) – NSW, SA, VIC
  • B. bassi Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA
  • B. bella Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA
  • B. birksi Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA, VIC
  • B. carnarvon Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – QLD
  • B. emmottorum Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – QLD
  • B. gemmelli Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA
  • B. hortoni Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA
  • B. mainae Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – WA
  • B. maryae Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA
  • B. newtoni Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA
  • B. nullarborensis Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – WA
  • B. olea Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – WA
  • B. parva Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA
  • B. pidax Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA
  • B. plata Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – QLD
  • B. raveni Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – QLD
  • B. tariae Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – WA
  • B. tunstilli Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – SA
  • B. wingellina Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – WA

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Blakistonia Hogg, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  2. ^ Main, B. Y. (1985). "Further studies on the systematics for Ctenizid trapdoor spiders: A review of the Australian genera (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae)". Australian Journal of Zoology. 108 (suppl. Ser): 39. doi:10.1071/AJZS108.
  3. ^ Hogg, H. R. (1902). "On some additions to the Australian spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 72 (II, 1): 121–142 [131].