Brown Flat Ground Spider Fissarena castanea (Simon, 1908)
Fauna Portal species: 6292
Fissarena castanea male, dorsal (HBI N17866-1; ca. 18 km N. of Wittenoom, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 9318Diagnosis
(after Platnick 2002): Males can easily be recognized by the two 90 degree turns made by the palpal conductor, along the retrolateral side of the palpal bulb; females resemble those of F. barrow in the shape of the epigynal atrium (which varies significantly in width, although it seems always to be shield-shaped), but have much more highly convoluted epigynal ducts.
Status
- native
Linnean Syntype(s)
Australia
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2002): A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, and Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 271: 1 - 243