Spinose Prowling Spider Miturgopelma echinoides Raven, 2023
Fauna Portal species: 236
Miturgopelma echinoides, dorsal (HBI N16376-1; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2021)
Fauna Portal Image No. 824Diagnosis
(after Raven et al. 2023): Males are similar to those of M. echidna in the presence of dorsal spines on the cymbium but differ in that retrolatral tibial apophysis is very short and the spines few and marginal on the cymbium. The diagnostic feature of the median apophysis of M. echinoides is the median apophysis with an extensive unsclerotised area that projects as a rounded shelf retrolaterally. Epigyne with median septum short and wide, anterior septum, and procurved ridges with deeper median zone.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Queensland
- Western Australia
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Publications
(2023): Revisions of Australian ground-hunting spiders VI: five new stripe-less miturgid genera and 48 new species (Miturgidae: Miturginae). Zootaxa. 5358: 1 - 117DOI