Net-casting Spider Asianopis subrufa (L. Koch, 1878)
Fauna Portal species: 179
Asianopis subrufa male, frontal (HBI N19775-1, 121 Tharrleah Drive, Sedgewick, Victoria)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2014)
Fauna Portal Image No. 1067Diagnosis
The genus Asianopis has not been revised for Australia and a modern diagnosis of A. subrufa does not exist. Specimens in the collection of the HBI (Murdoch University) appear all to represent the same, widespread species which is here considered to be A. subrufa pending a revision of the genus in Australia.
Australia
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- Victoria
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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