Idiosoma sigillatum

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| genus = Idiosoma

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| authority = (O.P.-Cambridge, 1870){{cite journal |last1=Cambridge|first1=O. P.- |date=1870 |title= Monograph of the genus Idiops, including descriptions of several species new to science| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28554915 |journal= Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London|volume=1870 |issue= |pages=101–108 [105] |doi=|access-date=}}

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| Idiops sigillatus |O.P.-Cambridge, 1870

| Idiosoma hirsutum Main, 1952}}

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Idiosoma sigillatum is a species of mygalomorph spider in the Idiopidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1870 by British arachnologist Octavius Pickard-Cambridge.{{cite web |url= https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/83672d75-48f9-4d93-8c1c-b5a9d25ec640|title= Species Idiosoma sigillatum (O.P.-Cambridge, 1870) |author= |date=2023-02-03|website= Australian Faunal Directory |publisher=Dept of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia |access-date= 2023-08-30}}

Distribution and habitat

The species occurs in south-west Western Australia, in the Swan Coastal Plain and Jarrah Forest bioregions, including the Darling Scarp and Rottnest Island, in open forest habitats. The type locality is Swan River (Perth).

Behaviour

The spiders are fossorial, terrestrial predators. They construct burrows with trapdoors in plant litter on sandy-gravel soils, with a fan of twig-lines around the entrance.

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