Long-legged Argoctenus
Argoctenus
FP-372
Discoverer: J.M. Waldock (2013)
Fauna Portal species: 372
Argoctenus FP-372 male, dorsal (HBI N32121-1; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 8916Diagnosis
Males of Argoctenus FP-372 species are very long-legged (and difficult to photograph...). They have a characteristically shaped retrolateral apophysis that is centrally pointed in ventral view of the pedipalp. The female epigyne is uniquely convoluted.
Status
- native
Fauna Portal Reference
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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