Migas nitens Hickman, 1927:52
Silver migas trapdoor
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
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