Porongurup Garden Orb-weaver Hortophora porongurup Framenau & Castanheira, 2021
Fauna Portal species: 11162
Hortophora porongurup male, dorsal (WAM T155065)
Image: Framenau et al. (2021; fig. 18A)
Fauna Portal Image No. 2440Diagnosis
(after Framenau et al. 2021): Males of H. porongurup are easily identified by the extremely elongated median apophysis of the male pedipalp that reaches far beyond the pedipalp contour. Similarly, females of H. porongurup are unlike any other species in the genus and can be distinguished from all other Hortophora by the thick and rounded lateral borders of the epigyne and an extremely wide central division. The central division is much narrower in all other Hortophora species.
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
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Publications
(2021): Taxonomic revision of the new spider genus Hortophora, the Australian garden orb-weavers (Araneae, Araneidae). Evolutionary Systematics. 5: 275 - 334