Taxon details

Family: Idiopidae / Genus: Gaius

Gaius villosus Rainbow, 1914

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2018-12-21
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000645]
  • Distribution: Australia (Western Australia)
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Taxonomic references
Gaius villosus Rainbow, 1914a: 195, f. 6-8 (Df).
Anidiops villosus Main, 1957a: 426, f. 3C, 5B (Dm).
Anidiops villosus Main, 1964: 36, f. A-C (m).
Anidiops villosus Main, 1985a: 17, f. 14, 22, 28, 193, 209-210, 213-214 (mf).
Gaius villosus Rix et al., 2017a: 620, f. 238-239, 242, 246, 248, 252-253 (m, T from Anidiops).
Gaius sp. 'Wiluna' Rix et al., 2017a: 619, f. 244, 251 (m).
Gaius villosus Rix, Raven & Harvey, 2018: 444, f. 1-3, 10, 14-36 (mf).
References

Main, B. Y. (1957a). Biology of aganippine trapdoor spiders (Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 5(4): 402-473. doi:10.1071/ZO9570402 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Main, B. Y. (1964). Spiders of Australia: a guide to their identification with brief notes on the natural history of common forms. Jacaranda Press, Brisbane, 124 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Main, B. Y. (1985a). 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. doi:10.1071/AJZS108 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Rainbow, W. J. (1914a). Studies in the Australian Araneidae. No. 6. The Terretelariae. Records of the Australian Museum 10: 187-270. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Rix, M. G., Raven, R. J., Main, B. Y., Harrison, S. E., Austin, A. D., Cooper, S. J. B. & Harvey, M. S. (2017a). The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae: Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level. Invertebrate Systematics 31(5): 566-634. doi:10.1071/IS16065 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-17-079.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2018-12-21 New taxonomic reference entry Rix et al., 2017a n/a
2018-12-21 New taxonomic reference entry Rix, Raven & Harvey, 2018 n/a
2017-09-26 New taxonomic reference entry Rix et al., 2017a n/a
2017-09-26 Species transferred to new genus Rix et al., 2017a Species transferred from Anidiops to Gaius