Barrow Island White-tailed Spider Lampona barrow Platnick, 2000

Fauna Portal species: 5291
Family: Lamponidae


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Lampona barrow male, dorsal (HBI N18139-1)

Image: V.W. Framenau (2021)

Fauna Portal Image No. 1331

Diagnosis

(after Platnick 2000): Males of L. barrow can easily be recognized by their oddly shaped, distally bifid retrolateral tibial apophysis.

Linnean Holotype

1 ♂
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Queensland Museum
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S34403
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Australia
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Western Australia
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Barrow Island

Australia

  • Western Australia

Publications

Platnick N.I. (2000): A relimitation and revision of the Australasian ground spider family Lamponidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 245: 1 - 330


Volker Framenau, 30 July 2022