Enigmatic Spider
Paraplectanoides Keyserling, 1886
Type species: Paraplectanoides crassipes Keyserling, 1886
Fauna Portal Genus Number: 2654
Paraplectanoides, only represented by the type species, P. crassipes, are enigmatic spiders of very unusual morphology for the Araneidae. They are squat spiders with largely orange females and black males. They cannot be mistaken for any other spider species in Australia.
Publications
Hickman VV (1975): On Paraplectanoides crassipes Keyserling (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 3: 166 - 174
Hormiga G, Kulkarni S, Arnedo M, Dimitrov D, Giribet G, Kallal RJ, Scharff N (2023): Genitalic morphology and phylogenomic placement of the Australian spider Paraplectanoides crassipes Keyserling, 1886 (Araneae, Araneidae) with a discussion on the classification of the family Araneidae. Invertebrate Systematics. 37: 797 - 818DOI
Kuntner M, Yu K-P, Bedjanič M, Gregorič M, Turk E, Čandek K, Coddington JA, Agnarsson I, Starrett J, Bond JE, Song H (2025): Osmooka, a new spider genus from Madagascar: a surprising relative of the Australian fauna (Araneae: Paraplectanoididae). Insect Systematics and Diversity. 9: DOI
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