Cryptoforis

Cryptoforis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Idiopidae
Genus:	Cryptoforis Wilson, Rix & Raven, 2020[1]
Type species
C. hughesae Wilson, Rix & Raven, 2020
Species
18, see text

Cryptoforis is a genus of armoured trapdoor spiders. It is endemic to Australia.[1] It was first described by Jeremy Wilson, Michael Rix and Robert Raven in 2020.[2]

Species

As of December 2021^[update] the genus contained eighteen species from New South Wales (NSW), Queensland (QLD), Tasmania (TAS) or Victoria (VIC):[1]

• C. absona Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – NSW
• C. arenaria Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – QLD
• C. cairncross Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – QLD
• C. cassisi Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – NSW
• C. celata Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – NSW
• C. cooloola Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – QLD
• C. fallax Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – NSW
• C. grayi Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – NSW
• C. hickmani Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – TAS
• C. hughesae Wilson, Rix & Raven, 2020 (type) – QLD
• C. mainae Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – NSW, QLD
• C. montana Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – QLD
• C. monteithi Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – QLD
• C. tasmanica (Hickman, 1928) – TAS
• C. victoriensis (Main, 1995) – VIC
• C. woondum Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – QLD
• C. xenophila Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – TAS
• C. zophera Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – VIC

See also

• Arbanitis
• Euoplos
• List of Idiopidae species

References

1. "Gen. Cryptoforis Wilson, Rix & Raven, 2020". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
2. Wilson, J. D.; Raven, R. J.; Schmidt, D. J.; et al. (2020). "Total-evidence analysis of an undescribed fauna: resolving the evolution and classification of Australia's golden trapdoor spiders (Idiopidae: Arbanitinae: Euoplini)". Cladistics. 36 (6): 543–568. doi:10.1111/cla.12415. PMID 34618949. S2CID 225677893.

Further reading

• Wilson, J. D.; Rix, M. G.; Schmidt, D. J.; et al. (2021). "Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spider genus Cryptoforis (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Euoplini): documenting an enigmatic lineage from the eastern Australian mesic zone". Journal of Arachnology. 49 (1): 28–90. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-18-100. S2CID 234364778.

• Rix, M. G.; Raven, R. J.; Main, B. Y.; et al. (2017). "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. S2CID 90787136.

• Raven, R. J.; Wishart, G. (2006). "The trapdoor spider Arbanitis L. Koch (Idiopidae: Mygalomorphae) in Australia". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 51: 531–557.

• Main, B. Y. (1995). "Biosystematics of Australian mygalomorph spiders: two new species of Arbanitis from Victoria (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae)". The Victorian Naturalist. 112: 202–207.