Barrow Island Garypus Garypus latens Harvey, 2020
Fauna Portal species: 4539
Garypus latens female, dorsal (HBI N18133; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2025)
Fauna Portal Image No. 10365Diagnosis
(after Harvey et al. 2020): Of the other Indo-West Pacific species of Garypus, G. latens most closely resembles G. longidigitus and G. yeni due to the uniformly coloured tergites that lack extensive pale areas. It differs from G. longidigitus by the position of trichobothrium st, which is situated midway between sb and (st is much closer to t in G. longidigitus) and from G. yeni by the colour of the tergite I, which is brown, apart from a faint yellow anterior region (yellow with 3 brown spots in G. yeni), and the carapace, which is brown with faint yellow markings in the metazone (mostly brown with a pair of yellow patches in the metazone in G. yeni).
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
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