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A new species plus new live habitus and burrow records of the spiny trapdoor spider genus Bungulla (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Aganippini) from south-western Australia
Michael G. Rix, Mark S. Harvey and Jeremy D. Wilson
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Michael G. Rix [1,2*], Mark S. Harvey [2,3,1] and Jeremy D. Wilson [2,3,1]
[1] Biodiversity and Geosciences Program, Queensland Museum Collections and Research Centre, Hendra, Queensland 4011, Australia.
[2] Collections and Research, Western Australian Museum, Welshpool, Western Australia 6106, Australia.
[3] School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia.
Abstract
The aganippine spiny trapdoor spider genus Bungulla Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2017 is endemic to Western Australia, with 32 species described following revisionary systematic study in 2018. In this paper we descibe a new species, B. pipilata sp. nov., from the northern Jarrah Forest bioregion of south-western Australia. This species is currently known from only a single locality in Upper Chittering, and appears closely related to B. biota Rix, Raven & Harvey, 2018 from the central Murchison bioregion. We further provide two new records of indeterminate female specimens collected on a recent Bush Blitz expedition to the northern Geraldton Sandplains bioregion, and document the live habitus morphology and burrowing biology of these specimens given the paucity of previous such records for the genus.
Cite this paper as: Rix MG, Harvey MS & Wilson JD (2025). A new species plus new live habitus and burrow records of the spiny trapdoor spider genus Bungulla (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Aganippini) from south-western Australia. Australian Journal of Taxonomy 102: 1–8. doi: https://doi.org/10.54102/ajt.9w54s
This paper was published on: 3/10/2025
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