Mandjelia Explained

Mandjelia is a genus of South Pacific brushed trapdoor spiders first described by Robert Raven in 1994.^[1]

Species

the genus contained twenty-three species, from Queensland (QLD), Western Australia (WA) and the Northern Territory (NT) in Australia, as well as one species from New Caledonia (NC):^[2]

• Mandjelia anzses Raven & Churchill, 1994 – QLD
• Mandjelia banksi Raven & Churchill, 1994 – QLD
• Mandjelia brassi Raven & Churchill, 1994 (type) – QLD
• Mandjelia colemani Raven & Churchill, 1994 – QLD
• Mandjelia commoni Raven & Churchill, 1994 – QLD
• Mandjelia exasperans Raven & Churchill, 1994 – QLD
• Mandjelia fleckeri Raven & Churchill, 1994 – QLD
• Mandjelia galmarra Raven & Churchill, 1994 – QLD
• Mandjelia humphreysi Raven & Churchill, 1994 – WA
• Mandjelia iwupataka Raven & Churchill, 1994 – NT
• Mandjelia macgregori Raven & Churchill, 1994 – QLD
• Mandjelia madura Raven & Churchill, 1994 – WA
• Mandjelia mccrackeni Raven & Churchill, 1994 – QLD
• Mandjelia nuganuga Raven & Churchill, 1994 – QLD
• Mandjelia oenpelli Raven & Churchill, 1994 – NT
• Mandjelia paluma Raven & Churchill, 1994 – QLD
• Mandjelia platnicki Raven, 1994 – NC
• Mandjelia qantas Raven & Churchill, 1994 – QLD
• Mandjelia rejae Raven & Churchill, 1994 – QLD
• Mandjelia thorelli (Raven, 1990) – QLD
• Mandjelia wooroonooran Raven & Churchill, 1994 – QLD
• Mandjelia wyandotte Raven & Churchill, 1994 – QLD
• Mandjelia yuccabine Raven & Churchill, 1994 – QLD

Notes and References

1. Raven. R. J.. 1994. Mygalomorph spiders of the Barychelidae in Australia and the western Pacific.. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 291–706. 35.
2. Gen. Mandjelia Raven, 1994. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-16. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.