Barrow Island Ant-eating Spider
Spinasteron
FP-7580
Discoverer: V.W. Framenau (2020)
Fauna Portal species: 7580
Spinasteron FP-7580 male, dorsal (HBI N16718-3; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 9226Diagnosis
The pedipalp of this species is most similar to that of Spinasteron nigriceps as illustrated in Baehr and Churchill (2003), but differs for example in the shape of the retrolateral tibial apophysis, that is not bulging ventrally in retrolateral view.
Status
- native
Fauna Portal Reference
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2003): Revision of the endemic Australian genus Spinasteron (Araneae: Zodariidae): taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography. Invertebrate Systematics. 17: 641 - 665DOI