Ruida White-tailed Spider Lampona ruida L. Koch, 1873
Fauna Portal species: 7454
Lampona ruida female, dorsal (HBI N30484-26; Launceston, Trevallyn Nature Recreation Area, Tasmania)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 7616Diagnosis
(after Platnick 2000): This taxon seems to be eastern sister species of L. foliifera Simon, which it resembles in having a dorsoventrally flattened tip of the retrolateral tibial apophysis in males and a deeply depressed epigynal fossa and greatly enlarged, bipartite spermathecae in females. Males can be distinguished from those of L. foliifera by the subbasal knob on the palpal femur, females by the much wider epigynal fossa.
Status
- native
Linnean Type
Female holotype from Australia [as ‘‘Neuholland’’], no specific locality, in NHM London (Platnick 2000).
Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(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