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Genus: Gaius Rainbow, 1914 | Family: Idiopidae Simon, 1889

Gaius austini Rix, Raven & Harvey, 2018

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050786

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Described:

Distribution: Australia (Western Australia)

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Western Australian Museum (WAM), Perth, Australia m (T42166) - (Rix, Raven & Harvey, 2018)
Paratype: Western Australian Museum (WAM), Perth, Australia 6m - (Rix, Raven & Harvey, 2018)

Taxonomic References

Gaius sp. 'Kalgoorlie' Rix et al., 2017a: 619, f. 240-241, 243, 247, 249 (m)

Gaius austini Rix, Raven & Harvey, 2018: 455, f. 5, 14, 49-70 (Dmf) Original description

References

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 -- 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 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference
2018-12-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Rix, Raven & Harvey, 2018
2018-12-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Rix et al., 2017a
2018-12-21	New species inserted	Rix, Raven & Harvey, 2018