Draculoides trinity

Draculoides trinity is a species of schizomid arachnids (commonly known as sprickets or short-tailed whip-scorpions)^[2] in the Hubbardiidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 2018 by Australian arachnologists Volker Framenau, Zoë Hamilton, Terrie Finston, Garth Humphreys, Kym Abrams, Joel Huey and Mark Harvey. The specific epithet trinity refers to the type locality.^[1][3]

Draculoides trinity
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Schizomida
Family:	Hubbardiidae
Genus:	Draculoides
Species:	D. trinity
Binomial name
Draculoides trinity (Framenau, Hamilton, Finston, Humphreys, Abrams, Huey & Harvey, 2018)[1]
Synonyms
Paradraculoides trinity Framenau et al, 2018

Distribution and habitat

The species occurs in the arid Pilbara region of North West Western Australia. The type locality is Trinity Bore, about 79 km south of the iron-ore mining town of Pannawonica and some 1,400 km north of Perth.^[1][3]