Barrow Island Ant-mimicking Jumping Spider
Rhombonotus
FP-302
Discoverer: J.M. Waldock (2007)
Fauna Portal species: 302
Rhombonotus FP-302 male, dorsal (HBI N5527-2; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 8499Diagnosis
Rhombonotus FP-302 lacks the characteristic thick fringe of setae on the tibiae of the first leg of the genus Rhombonotus, but is here included in the genus based on the similarity of the male pedipalp with the type species of the genus, R. gracilis, specifically the long, clockwise embolus. Rhombonotus FP-302 differs from the latter by the commparatively larger free end of the cymbium. The female was match based on the ventrally yellow coxae of the fourth leg. In addition, this is the only ant-mimicking species so far collected on Barrow Island.
Status
- native
Fauna Portal Reference
Australia
- Western Australia
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