Orb-weaving Spider Neoscona FP-4284
Discoverer: V.W. Framenau (2006)

Fauna Portal species: 4284
Family: Araneidae


FP-4284

Neoscona FP-4285 male, dorsal (HBI N18948-20; Barrow Island, Western Australia)

Image: V.W. Framenau (2022)

Fauna Portal Image No. 2940

Diagnosis

Neoscona FP-4284 is currently only known from Barrow Island. There, females differ from those of N. theisi by the shorter epigyne and males by the lack of a fan-shaped terminal apophysis.  They differ from Neoscona FP-166 by the different abdominal colouration, which has two rows of black spots in the latter but a folium pattern in Neoscona FP-4284.  

Status

  • native

Linnean Holotype

1 ♂
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Western Australian Museum
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8 September 2016
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Australia
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Western Australia
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Karnup Nature Reserve

Australia

  • Western Australia

Volker Framenau, 16 August 2022