Scalidognathus is a genus of Asian armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1892. Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the Idiopidae in 1985.
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Scalidognathus is a genus of Asian armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1892. Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the Idiopidae in 1985.
==Species== it contains six species: Scalidognathus montanus (Pocock, 1900) – India Scalidognathus nigriaraneus Sanap & Mirza, 2011 – India Scalidognathus oreophilus Simon, 1892 – Sri Lanka Scalidognathus radialis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) (type) – Sri Lanka Scalidognathus seticeps Karsch, 1892 – Sri Lanka Scalidognathus tigerinus Sanap & Mirza, 2011 – India
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