Barrow Island Encoptarthria
Encoptarthria
FP-192 (BWI sp. 1)
Discoverer: J.M. Waldock (2011)
Fauna Portal species: 192
Encoptarthria FP-192 male, dorsal (HBI N18313-6; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2023)
Fauna Portal Image No. 5535Diagnosis
Encoptarthria FP-192 is currently the only known species of the genus on Barrow Island, where it is currently known from. It differs from E. echemophthalma as illustrated in Zakharov & Ovtcharenko (2011) by the numerous pegged setae on the retrolatral apophysis; there are much less in the latter species and they seem to be cuticular denticles.
Status
- native
Fauna Portal Reference
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2011): Morphological organization of the male palpal organ in Australian ground spiders of the genera Anzacia, Intruda, Zelanda, and Encoptarthria (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Journal of Arachnology. 39: 327 - 336