Black-spotted Daddy Long-leg Trichocyclus nigropunctatus Simon, 1908
Fauna Portal species: 273
Trichocyclus nigropunctatus male, dorsal (HBI N34832-3; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2026)
Fauna Portal Image No. 13918Diagnosis
(after Huber 2001): Males distinguished from congeners by the distal male cheliceral apophyses that appear divided into two parts each, and by the tip of the procursus.
The female syntype lodged in Paris was designated a lectotype by Deeleman-Reinhold (1993).
Status
- native
Linnean Syntype(s)
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(1993): Description of a new cave-dwelling pholcid spider from north-western Australia, with an identification key to the genera of Australian Pholcidae (Araneae). Records of the Western Australian Museum. 16: 323 - 329WEB
(2001): The pholcids of Australia (Araneae: Pholcidae): taxonomy, biogeography, and relationships. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 260: 1 - 144