Hovea Stephanopis Stephanopis FP-11667
Discoverer: B.N. Framenau

Fauna Portal species: 11667
Family: Thomisidae


FP-11667

Stephanopis FP-11667 male, dorsal (HBI N31348-1; Hovea, Western Australia)

Image: V.W. Framenau (2023)

Fauna Portal Image No. 6271

Diagnosis

Stephanopis FP-11667 could not be key out in Machado et al.'s (2019) key. It seems most similar to Isala cambridgei but clearly differs in detail of colouration and epigyne morphology; for example the anterior rim of the epigyne atrium is entire in Stephanopis FP-11667, but not so in I. cambridgei.

As I. cambridgei,  this species may also belong to the genus Isala pending an examination of a male (Machado & Teixeira 2021).

Status

  • native

Fauna Portal Reference

1 ♀
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Harry Butler Institute
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29613-1
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18 October 2022
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Australia
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Western Australia
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545 Hedges Road, Hovea

Australia

  • Western Australia

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Publications

Machado M, Teixeira RA (2021): Phylogenetic relationships in Stephanopinae: systematics of Stephanopis and Sidymella based on morphological characters (Araneae: Thomisidae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 21: 281 - 313DOI

Machado M, Teixeira RA, Milledge GA (2019): On the Australian bark crab spider genus Stephanopis: taxonomic review and description of seven new species (Araneae: Thomisidae: Stephanopinae). Records of the Australian Museum. 71: 217 - 276


Volker Framenau, 10 August 2023