Houstons Ground Spider Meedo houstoni Main, 1987
Fauna Portal species: 188
Meedo houstoni female, dorsal (HBI N33604-1; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 8817Diagnosis
(after Platnick 2002): Males resemble those of M. yarragin in having a triangular retrolateral tibial apophysis, but have a shorter embolus, which originates proximally on the palpal bulb; females also resemble those of M. yarragin but have a longer epigynal atrium.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- 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