Rugose Goblin Spider Opopaea rugosa Baehr & Ott, 2013
Fauna Portal species: 252
Opopaea rugosa male, dorsal (WAM T57552; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: Baehr et al. (2013; 142A)
Fauna Portal Image No. 7830Diagnosis
(after Baehr et al. 2013): Males of Opopaea rugosa resemble those of O. julianneae in general body shape and postepigastric scutum with longitudinal elevated ridge, covered with a line of slim plumose setae between lateral apodemes, but can be easily recognised by the high shouldered carapace, scuto-pedicel region more than diameter of pedicel, paired scutal ridges not connected and bulb ventrally strongly bulging, tip with ventral crest and deep prolateral incision, ‘fenestra’ large. Females can be separated from all other WA species by the globular appendix (GAp) having a long narrow extension.
Within the context of the oonopid fauna of Barrow Island, O. rugosa is most similar to O. robusta due to the rounded abdomen, but the abdomen is more rugose.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
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Publications
(2013): The goblin spider genus Opopaea in Australia and the Pacific islands (Araneae: Oonopidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature. 58: 107 - 338