Yesabah Garden Orb-weaver Hortophora yesabah Framenau & Castanheira, 2021
Fauna Portal species: 11163
Hortophora yesabah male, dorsal (QM S111896)
Image: Framenau et al. (2021; fig. 33A)
Fauna Portal Image No. 2476Diagnosis
(after Framenau et al. 2021): The male pedipalp of male H. yesabah , specifically the shape of the median apophysis is unlike any other in the genus, as it terminates in two large somewhat pointy lobes, of which the dorsal one is heavily sclerotised. Females of H. yesabah are similar to the ones of H. lodicula , however, the epigyne of H. yesabah is broad at the base of the scape, whereas it is narrow at the base of the scape in H. lodicula.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- New South Wales
- Queensland
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Publications
(2021): Taxonomic revision of the new spider genus Hortophora, the Australian garden orb-weavers (Araneae, Araneidae). Evolutionary Systematics. 5: 275 - 334