A relatively large trapdoor spider (body length in males 13mm) with a dark brown/black cephalothorax, black/dark brown femora and light brown distal leg segments. Caput covered in golden hairs. Eyes arranged in a rectangle.
Identified to species level using the keys in Wishart (2006) and Wishart and Rowell (2008) - see URL for the Wishart (2006) paper above. The diagnostic characters in the male include: relatively large brown spider; venter without pigmentation; embolus straight, distal tibial apophysis hooked; absence of small spines on tarsi I and II and spine clusters on metatarsi I and II; dorsal surface of cymbium with spines.
Note that Rix et al 2017 Invertebrate Systematics 31, 566-634 revised the genus name, changing it from Misgolas to Arbanitis. The ALA still shows it as Misgolas.
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