Prominent Money Spider Erigone prominens Bösenberg & Strand, 1906
Fauna Portal species: 221
Erigone prominens male, dorsal (HBI N17756-1; Lake Lefroy, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2023)
Fauna Portal Image No. 6053Diagnosis
(after Wunderlich 1976): The apophysis of the patella is less bent than in E. eisenschmidti and the shape of te tibial apophyses is different. In E. prominens the position of the trichobothrium on metatarsus I is more distal (0.40–0.48).
Miller (2007) contemplates that Erigone eisenschmidti, reported as an endemic Australian species, may be a synonym of the Afroasian species E. prominens, a species also introduced to New Zealand.
Status
- introduced
Australia
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2007): Review of erigonine spider genera in the Neotropics (Araneae: Linyphiidae, Erigoninae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 149: 1 - 263
(1976): Spinnen aus Australien. 2. Linyphiidae (Arachnida: Araneida). Senckenbergiana Biologica. 57: