Elevated Wrap-around Spider
Dolophones
elevata
Discoverer: P. Castanheira (2025)
Fauna Portal species: 14851
Order: Araneae (Spiders)
Family: Araneidae
Diagnosis
Females of D. elevata are distinguished from all congeners by the abdomen almost as long as wide and centrally very elevated, and by the epigyne central division very wide, with posterior plates separated by more than the scape width. Males are unknown.
Status
- native
Australia
- Victoria
Volker Framenau, 19 October 2026
Araneae (Spiders)
- Actinopodidae
- Anamidae
- Araneae fam. indet.
- Araneidae
- Abba
- Acroaspis
- Anepsion
- Arachnura
- Araneidae gen. indet.
- Argiope
- Austracantha
- Backobourkia
- Bijoaraneus
- Carepalxis
- Celaenia
- Courtaraneus
- Cyclosa
- Cyrtobill
- Cyrtophora
- Dolophones
- apicocristata
- bituberculata
- boomerang
- clypeata
- crassilobata
- dispersa
- dubia
- elevata
- footy
- fowlerensis
- furiosa
- geniculata
- gigantea
- intricata
- mammeata
- mariposa
- megaloembolus
- notacantha
- parageniculata
- pavlova
- pederseni
- peltata
- phalloides
- pseudonotacantha
- quadrata
- scimitariformis
- simpla
- striata
- tegulocristata
- testudinea
- timtam
- tridactyla
- ultima
- vegemite
- Eriovixia
- Gea
- Genus 2199 ('Cucullus')
- Genus 239 (cf. Scoloderus)
- Genus 2775 (talipedatus gp)
- Genus 3241 ('Corargiope')
- Genus 3271 (mangrove larinoid)
- Genus 3274
- Genus 3313 (psittacinus gp)
- Genus 3338 (acuminatus gp)
- Genus 3339 (albotriangulus gp)
- Genus 3340 (speculabundus gp)
- Genus 3345 (dehaani gp)
- Genus 3346
- Genus 3347 (rainbowi gp)
- Genus 3348
- Hortophora
- Isoxya
- Kangaraneus
- Larinia
- Lariniophora
- Leviana
- Leviaraneus
- Mangrovia
- Nemoscolus
- Neoscona
- Novakiella
- Novaranea
- Plebs
- Poltys
- Quokkaraneus
- Salsa
- Socca
- Soccaraspis
- Telaprocera
- Trichonephila
- Venomius
- Yowie
- Abba
- Archaeidae
- Argyronetidae
- Arkyidae
- Barychelidae
- Cheiracanthiidae
- Clubionidae
- Corinnidae
- Ctenidae
- Cycloctenidae
- Deinopidae
- Dictynidae
- Euagridae
- Filistatidae
- Gnaphosidae
- Hahniidae
- Halonoproctidae
- Hersiliidae
- Idiopidae
- Lamponidae
- Linyphiidae
- Lycosidae
- Matachiidae
- Mimetidae
- Miturgidae
- Mysmenidae
- Nicodamidae
- Oecobiidae
- Oonopidae
- Oxyopidae
- Paraplectanoididae
- Philodromidae
- Pholcidae
- Phonognathidae
- Pisauridae
- Porteriidae
- Prodidomidae
- Salticidae
- Scytodidae
- Segestriidae
- Selenopidae
- Sparassidae
- Symphytognathidae
- Tetrablemmidae
- Tetragnathidae
- Theridiidae
- Thomisidae
- Toxopidae
- Trachelidae
- Trachycosmidae
- Trochanteriidae
- Uloboridae
- Zodariidae
- Zoropsidae
All classes
- Arachnida
- Crustacea
- Entognatha
- Gastropoda
- Insecta
- Blattodea s. str. (Cockroaches)
- Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Dermaptera (earwigs)
- Diptera (flies, mosquitos)
- Entomobryomorpha (slender springtails)
- Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)
- Hemiptera - Auchenorrhyncha (cicadas, planthoppers)
- Hemiptera - Heteroptera (True Bugs)
- Hemiptera - Sternorrhyncha (aphids, scales etc.)
- Hymenoptera - Formicidae (Ants)
- Hymenoptera excl. Formicidae (bees and wasps)
- Mantodea (Praying Mantises)
- Orthoptera - Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
- Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
- Zygentoma (silverfish)
- Myriapoda
