Bungulla Riparia
''Bungulla riparia'' is a species of mygalomorph spider in the Idiopidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1957 by Australian arachnologist Barbara York Main. Distribution and habitat The species occurs in Western Australia in the Geraldton Sandplains bioregion, from Lesueur National Park southwards to Mount Misery, in woodland habitats and on creek banks on friable sedimentary soils. The type locality is a mile south of Mount Misery, west of Moora in the Wheatbelt. Behaviour The spiders are fossorial A fossorial () animal is one adapted to digging which lives primarily, but not solely, underground. Some examples are badgers, naked mole-rats, clams, meerkats, and mole salamanders, as well as many beetles, wasps, and bees. Prehistoric eviden ..., terrestrial predators which construct burrows with stiff, flaplike trapdoors. References riparia Spiders of Australia Endemic fauna of Australia Arthropods of Western Australia ...
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Barbara York Main
Barbara Anne York Main (27 January 1929 – 14 May 2019) Ann Jones (2019"Barbara York Main, Australia's spider woman and Wheatbelt advocate, author and poet dies"''Off Track'', Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Published May 23, 2019. Accessed May 23, 2019. was an Australian arachnologist and adjunct professor at the University of Western Australia. The author of four books and over 90 research papers, Main is recognised for her prolific work in establishing taxonomy for arachnids, personally describing 34 species and seven new genera. The BBC and ABC produced a film about her work, ''Lady of the Spiders'', in 1981."Lady of the Spiders (1981)"
British Film Institute.Hodgkin, Ernest P. (1995)

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