Proshermacha armigera
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| genus = Proshermacha
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| authority = (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918){{cite journal |last1=Rainbow|first1=WJ |last2=Pulleine |first2=RH | date=1918 |title= Australian trap-door spiders|url= |journal= Records of the Australian Museum|volume=12 |issue= |pages=81–169 [150] |doi=10.3853/j.0067-1975.12.1918.882|doi-access=free |access-date=}}
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|Aname armigera |Rainbow, & Pulleine, 1918}}
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Proshermacha armigera is a species of mygalomorph spider in the Anamidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1918 by Australian arachnologists William Joseph Rainbow and Robert Henry Pulleine.{{cite web |url= https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/7382b261-6091-42c5-80d4-3fb33358f6b1 |title= Species Proshermacha armigera (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918)|author= |date=2022|website= Australian Faunal Directory |publisher=Dept of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia |access-date= 2023-05-28}}
Distribution and habitat
The species occurs in the south-west of Western Australia, in the Wheatbelt and western Goldfields regions, in low woodland habitats. The type locality is Mullewa.
Behaviour
The spiders are fossorial, terrestrial predators.
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Category:Endemic fauna of Australia
Category:Arthropods of Western Australia
Category:Spiders described in 1918
Category:Taxa named by William Joseph Rainbow
Category:Taxa named by Robert Henry Pulleine
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