Darwin's Big-footed Trapdoor Spider Swolnpes darwini Main & Framenau, 2009
Fauna Portal species: 10568
Swolnpes darwini male, dorsal (WAM T97003; Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia)
Image: Main & Framenau (2009; fig. 2A)
Fauna Portal Image No. 12312Diagnosis
(after Main & Framenau 2009): Swolnpes darwini males differ from those of S. morganensis by their relatively shorter and less inflated tarsi and metatarsi of leg I, dark pattern on the abdomen (uniformly yellow-brown in S. morganensis) and a basally straight embolus that is terminally pointed (embolus basally curved and less pointed in S. morganensis). Females of neither species are currently known.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2009): A new genus of mygalomorph spider from the Great Victoria Desert and neighbouring arid country in south-eastern Western Australia (Araneae: Nemesiidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum. 25: 277 - 285WEB