ArkysArkys Image Index Arkys alatus (Winged Arkys) Arkys alticephala (High-headed Arkys) Arkys bulburinensis Arkys cornutus (Horned Triangular Spider) Arkys curtulus (Small Bird-dropping Spider) Arkys enigma Arkys lancearius (Triangular Spider) Arkys walckenaeri (Walckenaer’s Studded Triangular Spider)
Arkys enigma in the family Arkyidae, is one of the small turreted spiders, first found in Tasmania and decribed in 2018 by John Douglas2. Arkys enigma has now been observed and documented in New South Wales.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Chelicerata
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Infraorder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Arkyidae
- Genus: Arkys
- Species: Arkys enigma
Footnote & References
- Photographs © Michael Doe
- John C Douglas, interest in photographing spiders, which led to trying to identify them and to create a website to document the spiders he found and photographed (www.tasmanianspiders.info) and author of the publication Tasmanian Spiders. He is an Honorary Research Associate at the Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston.
- Tasmanian spider photographer, and arachnid whisperer, shares tricks of the trade, by Sarah Abbott, ABC News, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-28/spider-photographer-arachnophobia-tasmania-queen-victoria/12286008
- Arkys enigma Douglas, 2018, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Arkys enigma
- Arkys enigma, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/864822-Arkys-enigma
ArkysArkys Image Index Arkys alatus (Winged Arkys) Arkys alticephala (High-headed Arkys) Arkys bulburinensis Arkys cornutus (Horned Triangular Spider) Arkys curtulus (Small Bird-dropping Spider) Arkys enigma Arkys lancearius (Triangular Spider) Arkys walckenaeri (Walckenaer’s Studded Triangular Spider)
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SpidersIndex of Spider Images Spiders in Australia Spiders Index Araneidae — Orb Weavers Arkys Australian Huntsman Spider Barking Spider Black House Spider Carepalxis sp Celaenia sp Crab Spiders Deinopidae — Net-casting Spiders Dolomedes sp Dolophones sp Euryopis umbilicate (Superb Ant-eater Spider) Flower Spiders Gnaphosidae (Stealthy Ground Spider) Hackled Orbweavers (Uloboridae) Herennia sp Jewel Spider Jumping Spider Long Jawed Spider (Tetragnatha sp) Lynx Spider (Oxyopes) Mangrovia albida Maratus Missulena occatoria (Red-headed Mouse Spider) Miturgidae Molycria burwelli Mopsus mormon Nicodamidae (Red and Black Spider) Nyssus coloripes (Orange-legged Swift Spider) Ogre-faced Net-casting Spider Poltys sp (Twig Spider) Redback Spider Scorpion-tailed Spider (Arachnura higginsi) Tetragnatha Thomisidae Tiger Spider (Trichonephila plumipes) White-spotted Swift Spider (Nyssus albopunctatus) Wolf Spider