Euoplos

Euoplos is a genus of Australian armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1914.[3]

Euoplos
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Euoplos
Rainbow, 1914[1]
Type species
E. spinnipes
Rainbow, 1914
Species

20, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Albaniana Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918[2]
  • Armadalia Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918[2]
  • Bancroftiana Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918[2]
  • Tambouriniana Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918[2]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains twenty species found in various geographical locations of Australia and Tasmania:[1]

  • Euoplos bairnsdale (Main, 1995) – Australia (Victoria)
  • Euoplos ballidu (Main, 2000) – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Euoplos cornishi Rix, Wilson & Harvey, 2019 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Euoplos crenatus Wilson, Rix & Raven, 2019 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Euoplos festivus (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918) – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Euoplos goomboorian Wilson, Rix & Raven, 2019 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Euoplos grandis Wilson & Rix, 2019 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Euoplos hoggi (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia)
  • Euoplos inornatus (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918) – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Euoplos kalbarri Rix, Wilson & Harvey, 2019 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Euoplos mcmillani (Main, 2000) – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Euoplos ornatus (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918) – Australia (Queensland)
  • Euoplos saplan Rix, Wilson & Harvey, 2019 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Euoplos similaris (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918) – Australia (Queensland)
  • Euoplos spinnipes Rainbow, 1914 (type) – Australia (Queensland)
  • Euoplos tasmanicus (Hickman, 1928) – Australia (Tasmania)
  • Euoplos thynnearum Wilson, Rix & Raven, 2019 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Euoplos turrificus Wilson, Rix & Raven, 2019 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Euoplos variabilis (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
  • Euoplos victoriensis (Main, 1995) – Australia (Victoria)

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Euoplos Rainbow, 1914". 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.): 22.
  3. Rainbow, W. J. (1914). "Studies in the Australian Araneidae. No. 6. The Terretelariae". Records of the Australian Museum. 10: 187–270.

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