''Rhianodes'' is a

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n brushed trapdoor spiders containing the single species, ''Rhianodes atratus''. It was first described by

Robert Raven Robert John Raven is an Australian arachnologist, being the Head of Terrestrial Biodiversity and the Senior Curator (Arachnida) at the Queensland Museum. Dr Raven has described over 450 species of spider in Australia and elsewhere, and is spider ...

in 1985, and was later renamed to "Rhianodes" because the name was already attributed to a genus of weevils in the subfamily

Apostasimerini Apostasimerini is a tribe of flower weevils in the family of beetles known as Curculionidae. There are over 240 genera and nearly 1700 described species in Apostasimerini. Genera found in North America * ''Acentrinops'' Casey, 1920 * ''Amerced ...

. These spiders have only been found in

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, and

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Barychelidae Monotypic Mygalomorphae genera Spiders of Asia {{Barychelidae-stub