Waldock's Swift Spider Poecilipta waldockae Raven, 2015
Fauna Portal species: 6927
Poecilipta waldockae male, dorsal (HBI N36060-1; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2025)
Fauna Portal Image No. 11240Diagnosis
(after Raven 2015): Males differs from those of other known Western Australian species of Poecilipta in the almost untwisted cymbial tip, the very narrow gap of soft cuticle separating the dorsal and genital abdominal scutes, and the narrowly twisted embolus tip and the long shallow posterior slope of the carapace. The male differs from those of P. kgari in the cork-screw embolus tip. Female unknown.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2015): A revision of ant-mimicking spiders of the family Corinnidae (Araneae) in the Western Pacific. Zootaxa. 3958: 1 - 258