Ghostly Tube-web Spider Ariadna phantasma Marsh, Hudson & Framenau, 2021
Fauna Portal species: 11841
Ariadna phantasma male, dorsal (WAM T152196; Lake Cowan, Western Australia)
Image: Marsh et al. (2021; fig. 1a)
Fauna Portal Image No. 5288Diagnosis
(after Marsh et al. 2021): Males of this species can be differentiated from all other Australian currently named species of Ariadna by the combination of the pale colour; the cluster of around 12 macrosetae prolaterally on femur I, where currently described species have three or fewer, and a preening comb on metatarsi IV with just two spines. The female can be further differentiated from all other Australian currently named Australian species by the pale colour; by a lack of ventral macrosetae on tibia and metatarsi I and II and by a preening comb with just two spines.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2021): A ghost in the salt: A new species of halotolerant tube-web spider in the genus Ariadna (Araneae: Segestriidae). Zootaxa. 4952: 580 - 588