Barrow Island Ground Spider
Genus 469 (BWI gen. 1)
FP-200 (BWI sp. 8)
Discoverer: J.M. Waldock (2007)
Fauna Portal species: 200
Genus 469 FP-200 male, dorsal (HBI N5919-9; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2023)
Fauna Portal Image No. 5612Diagnosis
Genus 469 FP-200 is a small species with conspicuously dark legs and abdomen and light carapace and sternum and coxae. The pedipalp is simple with stong and almost straight conductor and the retrolateral tibial apophysis is heavily sclerotised and pointy. The female is currently unknown.
Status
- native
Fauna Portal Reference
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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