Harveys Ground Spider Meedo harveyi Platnick, 2002
Fauna Portal species: 7097
Diagnosis
(after Platnick 2002): Males of Orea harveyi can easily be distinguished from those of all other species by the small, hook-shaped retrolateral tibial apophysis and wide, tapered embolus, females by the posteriorly rounded epigynal atrium.
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(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