Scalidognathus

Scalidognathus is a genus of Asian armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1892.[3] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the Idiopidae in 1985.[2]

Scalidognathus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Scalidognathus
Karsch, 1892[1]
Type species
S. radialis
Species

6, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

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

  • Scalidognathus montanus (Pocock, 1900) – India
  • Scalidognathus nigriaraneus Sanap & Mirza, 2011 – India
  • Scalidognathus oreophilus Simon, 1892 – Sri Lanka
  • Scalidognathus radialis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) (type) – Sri Lanka
  • Scalidognathus seticeps Karsch, 1892 – Sri Lanka
  • Scalidognathus tigerinus Sanap & Mirza, 2011 – India

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Scalidognathus Karsch, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  2. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 167.
  3. Karsch, F. (1892). "Arachniden von Ceylon und von Minikoy gesammelt von den Herren Doctoren P. und F. Sarasin". Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 36: 267–310.


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