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Rossi's Termite Hunter Austrammo rossi Platnick, 2002

Fauna Portal species: 2726
Family: Gnaphosidae



Diagnosis

(after Platnick 2002): The single known male and female of A. rossi are from widely separated localities, but are tentatively matched here in accordance with the null hypothesis strategy outlined by Platnick (2000). Males can easily be distinguished from congenerics by their very short retrolateral tibial apophysis, females by having the lateral epigynal margins connected to the anterior epigynal hood.

Linnean Holotype

1 ♀
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California Academy of Sciences
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17 October 1962
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Australia
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Western Australia
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Windjana Gorge

Australia

  • Western Australia

Fauna Portal Records

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Publications

Platnick N.I. (2000): A relimitation and revision of the Australasian ground spider family Lamponidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 245: 1 - 330

Platnick NI (2002): A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, and Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 271: 1 - 243


Volker Framenau, 03 May 2022