Houstons Ground Spider Meedo houstoni Main, 1987

Fauna Portal species: 188


houstoni

Meedo houstoni female, dorsal

Image: McCaffrey, S. & Harding, C. (2010) Gallieniellid Spider - Meedo houstoni (Meedo houstoni) Updated on 6/22/2010 9:51:28 PM Available online: PaDIL - http://www.padil.gov.au.

Fauna Portal Image No. 1727

Diagnosis

(after Platnick 2002): Males resemble those of M. yarragin in having a triangular retrolateral tibial apophysis, but have a shorter embolus, which originates proximally on the palpal bulb; females also resemble those of M. yarragin but have a longer epigynal atrium.

Linnean Holotype

1 ♀
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Western Australian Museum
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84/654
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26 August 1980
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Australia
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Western Australia
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10 km ESE. of Meedo Homestead

Australia

  • Western Australia

Publications

Platnick NI (2002): A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, and Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 271: 1 - 243


Volker Framenau, 04 August 2022