Barrow Island Flattened Ground Spider
Hemicloea
FP-213
Discoverer: J.M. Waldock (2007)
Fauna Portal species: 213
Hemicloea FP-213 male, dorsal (HBI N16753-7; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2023)
Fauna Portal Image No. 5764Diagnosis
Hemicloea FP-213 is currently the only species of the genus on the Fauna Portal. Males differ from H. sundevalli as illustrated in Zhakarov & Ovtsharenko (2013) by the much shorter retrolateral tibial apophysis. Females do not have a wrinkled atrium as in H. sundevalli.
Status
- native
Fauna Portal Reference
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2013): Structure of genital organs and mating process of the spider Hemicloea sundevalli Thorell, 1870 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Entomologica Americana. 119: 47 - 56