Green Spotted Crab Spider Tharrhalea prasina (L. Koch, 1876)
Fauna Portal species: 9435
Tharrhalea prasina female, dorsal (HBI N15273-6; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 9035Diagnosis
(after Szymkoviak 2014): The female differs from T. evanida and T. multopunctata in the small emargination at about 1/3 length of epigyne, position of central hood situated low in the posterior part of epigyne, close to the epigastric furrow and the spermathecae located above the central hood, in the anterior part of genital plate, from T. pulleinei in the narrow, bullet-shaped epigyne and from T. variabilis in the presence of central hood.
The female illustrated here is tentatively referred to T. prasina due to some similarity of the female epigyne as illustrated in Szymkoviak (2014).
Status
- native
Linnean Syntype(s)
Australia
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2014): Revision of Australian species of the genus Diaea (Araneae: Thomisidae) with redefinition of their taxonomic status. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa. 64: 333 - 477WEB