Bibliography for Arbanitinae

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• Koch, L.E. 1980. The primary types of Arachnida, Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Insecta, Onychophora and Pycnogonida in the Western Australian Museum. Records of the Western Australian Museum 8: 295-326 [Date published 31/12/1980]
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• Main, B.Y. 1952. Notes on the genus Idiosoma, a supposedly rare Western Australian trap-door spider. Western Australian Naturalist 3: 130-137 [15 Sept. 1952]
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• Main, B.Y. 1969. The trap-door spider genus Cataxia Rainbow (Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae): taxonomy and natural history. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 8: 192-209 [31 Dec. 1969]
• Main, B.Y. 1976. Spiders. Sydney : Collins 296 pp.
• Main, B.Y. 1977. Preliminary notes towards a revision of the mygalomorph spider genus Dyarcyops (Ctenizidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 4 4: 69-72
• Main, B.Y. 1978. Biology of the arid adapted Australian trapdoor spider Anidiops villosus (Rainbow). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 161-175
• Main, B.Y. 1979. An unusual method of soil disposal during burrow excavation by the trapdoor spider Anidiops villosus (Rainbow). Western Australian Naturalist 14: 115-117
• Main, B.Y. 1981. Eco-evolutionary radiation of Mygalomorph spiders in Australia. pp. 853-872 in Keast, A. (ed.). Ecological Biogeography of Australia. The Hague : Dr. W. Junk.
• Main, B.Y. 1981. Spiders of Australia. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 124 pp.
• Main, B.Y. 1983. Systematics of the trapdoor spider genus Homogona Rainbow (Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae: Homogoninae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 22: 81-92 figs 1-29
• Main, B.Y. 1985. Further studies on the systematics of Australian ctenizid trapdoor spiders: Description of a new species of Homogona Rainbow from Victoria (Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae). Victorian Naturalist 102: 16-19
• 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 Supplementary Series 108: 1-84
• Main, B.Y. 1985. Mygalomorphae. pp. 1-48 in Walton. D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 3. Mygalomorphae, Araneomorphae (part), Pseudoscorpionida, Amblypygi and Palpigradi. Canberra : Australian Government Printing Service 183 pp.
• Main, B.Y. 1986. Trapdoors of Australian mygalomorph spiders: Protection or predation? Actas X Congreso Internacional de Aracnologia 1: 95-102
• Main, B.Y. 1993. From flood avoidance to foraging: adaptive shifts in trapdoor spider behaviour. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33: 599–606
• Main, B.Y. 1995. Biosystematics of Australian mygalomorph spiders: two new species of Arbanitis from Victoria (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae). Victorian Naturalist 112: 202-207
• Main, B.Y. 2000. Biosystematics of two new species of unusually coloured Australian mygalomorph spiders, Arbanitis (Araneae: Idiopidae), from south-western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 83: 93-97
• Main, B.Y. & Mascord, R. 1974. Description and natural history of a "tube-building" species of Dyarcyops from New South Wales and Queensland (Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Australia N.S.W. 8: 15-21 [31 Jan. 1974]
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• Musgrave, A. 1949. Spiders harmful to man. Aust. Mus. Leaflet No. 16: 1–13.
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• Raven, R. J. & Gallon, J.G. 1987. An easy guide to the common spiders of the Northeast and their allies. Brisbane : Queensland Museum pp. 285-305.
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• Rix, M.G., Bain, K., Main, B.Y., Raven,R.J., Austin, A.D., Cooper, S.J.B. & Harvey, M.S. 2017. Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Cataxia (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from southwestern Australia: documenting a threatened fauna in a sky-island landscape. Journal of Arachnology 45: 395–423
• Rix, M.G., Bain, K., Main, B.Y. & Harvey, M.S. in Rix, M.G., Bain, K., Main, B.Y., Raven, R.J., Austin, A.D., Cooper, S.J.B. & Harvey, M.S. 2017. Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Cataxia (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from southwestern Australia: documenting a threatened fauna in a sky-island landscape. Journal of Arachnology 45: 395–423
• Rix, M.G., Huey, J.A., Cooper, S.J.B., Austin, A.D. & Harvey, M.S. 2018. Conservation systematics of the shield-backed trapdoor spiders of the nigrum-group (Mygalomorphae, Idiopidae, Idiosoma): integrative taxonomy reveals a diverse and threatened fauna from south-western Australia. ZooKeys 756: 1-121
• Rix, M.G., Main, B.Y., Raven, R.J. & Harvey, M.S. 2018. Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Eucanippe (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Aganippini) from south-western Australia: documenting a poorly-known lineage from Australia’s biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Arachnology 46: 133-154
• Rix, M.G., Main, B.Y., Raven, R.J. & Harvey, M.S. in Rix, M.G., Raven, R.J., Main, B.Y., Harrison, S., Austin, A.D., Cooper, S.J.B. & Harvey, M.S. 2017. The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae : Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level. Invertebrate Systematics 31: 566–634
• Rix, M.G., Raven, R.J., Austin, A.D., Cooper, S.J.B. & Harvey, M.S. 2018. Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spider genus Bungulla (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae): revealing a remarkable radiation of mygalomorph spiders from the Western Australian arid zone. Journal of Arachnology 46: 249-344
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• Rix, M.G., Raven, R.J. & Harvey, M.S. 2018. Systematics of the giant spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Gaius Rainbow (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Aganippini): documenting an iconic lineage of the Western Australian inland arid zone. Journal of Arachnology 46(3): 438-472
• Rix, M.G., Wilson, J.D., & Harvey, M.S. 2019. A revision of the white-headed spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Euoplos (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Arbanitinae): a remarkable lineage of rare mygalomorph spiders from the south-western Australian biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Arachnology 47: 63-76
• Rix, M.G., Wilson, J.D., Laidlaw, M.J., Harvey, M.S., Rix, A.G. & Rix, D.C. 2023. Demography, passive surveillance and potential habitat modelling of an Australian giant trapdoor spider (Idiopidae:Euoplos grandis) from the Queensland Brigalow Belt: Half a decade of population monitoring for conservation outcomes. Austral Entomology pre publication: 1-20
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• Simon, E. 1908. Araneae. Pt 1. pp. 359-446 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Fauna Südwest-Australiens. 1(12). Jena : Fischer.
• Strand, E. 1907. Aviculariidae und Atypidae des Kgl. Naturalien-kabinetts in Stuttgart. Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemburg 63: 1-100
• Todd, V. 1945. Systematic and biological account of the New Zealand Mygalomorphae (Arachnida). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 74(4): 375-407 pls 55-58 [Mar. 1945]
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• Wilson, J.D., Raven, R.J., Schmidt, D.J., Hughes, J.M. & Rix, M.G. 2020. Total-evidence analysis of an undescribed fauna: resolving the evolution and classification of Australia′s golden trapdoor spiders (Idiopidae: Arbanitinae: Euoplini). Cladistics 2020 36: 543-568
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• Wilson, J.D., Rix, M.G., Schmidt, D.J., Hughes, J.M. & Raven, R.J. 2021. Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spider genus Cryptoforis (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Euoplini): documenting an enigmatic lineage from the eastern Australian mesic zone. Journal of Arachnology 49: 28-90
• Wishart, G. 1992. New species of the trapdoor spider genus Misgolas Karsch (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) with a review of the tube-building species. Records of the Australian Museum 44: 263-278
• Wishart, G. 2006. Trapdoor spiders of the genus Misgolas (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) in the Sydney region, Australia, with notes on synonymies attributed to M. rapax. Records of the Australian Museum 58: 1-18
• Wishart, G. 2011. Trapdoor Spiders of the Genus Misgolas (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) in the Illawarra and South Coast Regions of New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 63: 33-51
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