Scalidognathus

Scalidognathus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Idiopidae
Genus:	Scalidognathus Karsch, 1892[1]
Type species
S. radialis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869)
Species
6, see text
Synonyms[1]
Nemesiellus Pocock, 1900[2]

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]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] 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

• List of Idiopidae species
• List of spiders of India

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.