Barrow Island Ground Spider
Genus 501 (BWI gen. 4)
FP-337 (BWI sp. 1)
Discoverer: J.M. Waldock (2005)
Fauna Portal species: 337
Genus 501 FP-337 male, dorsal (HBI N1340-13; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2023)
Fauna Portal Image No. 5475Diagnosis
Genus 501 FP-337 is the only species in the genus and on Barrow Island can be identified by the distinctly widening retrolateral apophysis of the male pedipalp.
Males and females have not been found together and have here been matched up based on general morphology taking the limited number of ground spider species on Barrow Island into account.
Status
- native
Fauna Portal Reference
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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