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Migas nitens Hickman, 1927:52

Silver migas trapdoor, Tree trapdoor-spider

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: after 30 December 1925

Since rediscovered.

 

Distribution

Cornelian Bay area, Tasmania, Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

MNHN AR4131

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Hickman, Vernon Victor. (1927). Studies in Tasmanian spiders. Part I. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1926: 52-86.

 

Other references:

Gates, Genevieve. (2014). Knocklofty Excursion, 9 March 2014. Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club 354: 6-8.

Griswold, Charles E. and Ledford, Joel. (2001). A monograph of the migid trap door spiders of Madagascar and review of the world genera (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Migidae). Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 151: 1-120.

Hickman, Vernon Victor. (1929). Studies in Tasmanian spiders. Part III. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1928: 96-118.

Hickman, Vernon Victor. (1967). Some common spiders of Tasmania. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 112 pp.

Huffenbaecher, Camila. (2009). Evolução nos padrões de telas e análise comparativa do comportamento de autolimpeza em mygalomorphae. Doctoral dissertation, Universidade de São Paulo.

Main, B. Y. (1985). Mygalomorphae, pp. 1-48. In: Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 3. Arachnida: Mygalomorphae, Araneomorphae in part, Pseudoscorpionida, Amblypygi and Palpigradi. Canberra: Bureau of Flora and Fauna.

Pérez-Miles, F., Guadanucci, J. P. L., Jurgilas, J. P., Becco, R. and Perafán, C. (2017). Morphology and evolution of scopula, pseudoscopula and claw tufts in Mygalomorphae (Araneae). Zoomorphology 136: 435-459. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-017-0364-9

Raven, Robert J. (1984). Systematics and Biogeography of the Mygalomorph Spider Family Migidae (Araneae) in Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 32(3): 379-390. https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO9840379

Raven, Robert J. and Churchill, Tracey B. (1989). A new species of Migas (Araneae, Migidae), with notes on Heteromigas in Tasmania. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 8(1): 5-8.

http://www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/zoology/types/typearth.html

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/19196/migas-nitens

http://tasfieldnats.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/5/7/17570703/bull354april2014.pdf

 https://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/69438/Kanunnah_TMAGInvertebrate_Enquiriesdatabase.pdf

 

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