Unusual Swift Spider Nyssus paradoxus Raven, 2015
Fauna Portal species: 6894
Nyssus paradoxus male, dorsal (HBI N29037-1; NE Saint George Basin, NW Kimberley, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2023)
Fauna Portal Image No. 5117Diagnosis
(after Raven 2015): Males of Nyssus paradoxus differ from all other Australian Castianeirinae in the strongly spinose retrolateral tibial apophysis and opposed wing-like paracymbial spines; females differ from those of N. robertsi in that the median epigynal groove does not extend to the epigastric ridge.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Queensland
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2015): A revision of ant-mimicking spiders of the family Corinnidae (Araneae) in the Western Pacific. Zootaxa. 3958: 1 - 258