Blakistonia

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

Blakistonia
Scientific classification
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

As of May 2019 it contains twenty species:[1]

  • Blakistonia aurea Hogg, 1902 (type) – Australia (South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales)
  • Blakistonia bassi Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – Australia (South Australia)
  • Blakistonia bella Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – Australia (South Australia)
  • Blakistonia birksi Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – Australia (South Australia, Victoria)
  • Blakistonia carnarvon Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Blakistonia emmottorum Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Blakistonia gemmelli Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – Australia (South Australia)
  • Blakistonia hortoni Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – Australia (South Australia)
  • Blakistonia mainae Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Blakistonia maryae Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – Australia (South Australia)
  • Blakistonia newtoni Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – Australia (South Australia)
  • Blakistonia nullarborensis Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Blakistonia olea Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Blakistonia parva Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – Australia (South Australia)
  • Blakistonia pidax Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – Australia (South Australia)
  • Blakistonia plata Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Blakistonia raveni Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Blakistonia tariae Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Blakistonia tunstilli Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – Australia (South Australia)
  • Blakistonia wingellina Harrison, Rix, Harvey & Austin, 2018 – Australia (Western Australia)

References
  1. "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 of ctenizid trapdoor spiders: A review of the Australian genera (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae)". Australian Journal of Zoology. 108 (suppl. Ser.): 39.
  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.


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