Barrow Island Pungalina
Pungalina
FP-283
Discoverer: J.M. Waldock (2006)
Fauna Portal species: 283
Pungalina FP-283 male, dorsal (HBI N15747-1; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2022)
Fauna Portal Image No. 2897Diagnosis
This species of Pungalina is currently only known from Barrow Island. Here, it differs from the other two species found there, Pungalina FP-7618 and Pungalina FP-11618, somatically and by genitalia. It is much smaller and of lighter colouration than Pungalina FP-11618. The male pedipalp differs by the ventrally bulging tegulum in males and by the large oval atrium in females from Pungalina FP-7618.
Status
- native
Fauna Portal Reference
Australia
- Western Australia
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