Idiosoma rhaphiduca

Idiosoma rhaphiduca is a species of mygalomorph spider in the Idiopidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1918 by Australian arachnologists William Joseph Rainbow and Robert Henry Pulleine.

Distribution and habitat

The species occurs in south-west Western Australia in open forest habitats, from the valleys of the Darling Scarp southwards to Bunbury and south-eastwards to Albany. The type locality is Kings Park in Perth.

Behaviour

The spiders are fossorial, terrestrial predators. They construct burrows with trapdoors in wet creek banks, the flood flats of watercourses and on patches of open ground in clay soils.