Red Wall Crab-Spider Karaops martamarta Crews & Harvey 2011
Fauna Portal species: 8942
Diagnosis
Females of this species can be differentiated from all others by the indistinct median septum and lateral lobes, and the median field being a long, narrow depression, with round spermathecae, and the sperm ducts nearly touch medially (figs 43–46 in Crews & Harvey, 2011). Males can be distinguished from other species by having an RTA in which the dorsal apophysis is longer than the ventral one and is truncate distally and by a large, twisted conductor (figs 29–30 in Crews, 2013).
A phylogenetic analyses of the COI barcoding gene places K. martamarta as sister to K. FP-11268 and K. FP-11269 combined, with sufficient genetic divergence to consider all three separate species.
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2013): Thirteen new species of the spider genus Karaops (Araneae: Selenopidae) from Western Australia. Zootaxa. 3647: 443 - 469
(2011): The spider family Selenopidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Australasia and the Oriental Region. ZooKeys. 99: 1 - 103