Family: Idiopidae Simon, 1889 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0012] Back

Gen. Blakistonia Hogg, 1902 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00075 ]
N.B.: transferred from the Ctenizidae to the Idiopidae by Raven, 1985a: 138; considered a senior synonym of Cantuarides Strand, 1907l: 8 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04991] (type C. exsiccatus Strand, 1907) by Main, 1985a: 39 (and apparently by Raven & Wishart, 2006: 534, contra Raven, 1985a: 150).
Status: accepted
Last updated
2022-04-19
Described in
Hogg, 1902: 131 (type Blakistonia aurea Hogg, 1902; gender feminine)
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Species counts
Counts Status
20accepted
1synonym
2nomen dubium
Reference

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, pl. 13. download pdf

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