Cantuaria mestoni

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| authority = (Hickman, 1928){{cite journal| last=Hickman| first=VV|last2= |first2= |last3= |first3= |last4= |first4= |last5= |first5= |year=1928 |title= Studies in Tasmanian spiders. Pt II|url= |journal= Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania|volume=1927|issue=|pages=158–175 [162]| doi=|access-date=}}

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|Arbanitis mestoni|Hickman, 1928

|Misgolas mestoni|(Hickman, 1928)}}

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Cantuaria mestoni is a species of mygalomorph spider in the Idiopidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1928 by Australian arachnologist Vernon Victor Hickman.{{cite web |url= https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/25598a72-e2bb-44ba-86a3-a40983a584da|title= Species Cantuaria mestoni (Hickman, 1928) |author= |date=2023-02-03|website= Australian Faunal Directory |publisher=Dept of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia |access-date= 2023-08-09}}

Distribution and habitat

The species occurs in Tasmania. The type locality is Woodsdale.

Behaviour

The spiders are fossorial, terrestrial predators which construct burrows without trapdoors in grassy sites.

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