Central Sand Wolf Spider Alopecosa leonhardii (Strand, 1913)
Fauna Portal species: 6018
Genus 3448 leonhardii male, dorsal (WAM 73/96)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2025)
Fauna Portal Image No. 11186Diagnosis
Alopecosa leonhardii differs from the second species in Genus 3448 by the black ventral tibia of the fourth leg, in addition to subtle differences in genital morphology. The tegular apophysis of the male pedipalp has the basal branch much thinner and rod-like, whilst it is forming a curved claw with the upper branch in Genus 3448 FP-12185.
Alopecosa madigani (Hickman, 1944) is an unpublished junior synonym of A. leonhardii.
Status
- native
Linnean Type
2 syntype females of Tarentula leonhardii Strand, 1913, Central Australia (no exact locality), 1909, v. Leonhardi, SMF 2231
Australia
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Victoria
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Publications
(1944): Scorpions and spiders. In: The Simpson Desert Expedition, 1939. Scientific Reports No. 1, Biology. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 68: