Watson's Wishbone Spider Aname watsoni Castalanelli, Framenau, Huey, Hillyer & Harvey, 2020
Fauna Portal species: 10521
Aname watsoni male, habitus dorsal (WAM T104786; 8 km W of Newman, Western Australia)
Image: Castalanelli et al. (2014; compound of figs 130 & 133)
Fauna Portal Image No. 7130Diagnosis
(after Castalanelli et al. 2014): Males of A. watsoni have one of the longest ventral depressions of the pedipalpal tibia of any species of Aname (PDL/PTL ΒΌ 0.64), which, when combined with the rather broad tibia I and prominent, large megaspur, serves to readily distinguish them from other species of the genus. Females differ by the presence of a single pair of widely spaced spermathecae that are curved laterally.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2020): New species of the open-holed trapdoor spider genus Aname (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Anamidae) from arid Western Australia. Journal of Arachnology. 48: 169 - 213