David's Orb-weaver Novaranea courti Framenau, 2011
Fauna Portal species: 6716
Novaranea courti female, dorsal (ZMUC; Cradle Mountain, Tasmania)
Image: Framenau (2011; fig. 2C)
Fauna Portal Image No. 2988Diagnosis
(after Framenau 2011): Novaranea courti differs from its only known congener, N. queribunda (and also from all Cryptaranea species), by the presence of distinct humeral humps. In addition, males differ in the shapes of most major pedipalp sclerites. For example, the embolus is much stouter in N. queribunda, the median apophysis is less elongate, the base of the terminal apophysis is much more bent and the conductor lacks a patch of small tubercles (present in N. courti). Females of N. courti differ from those of N. queribunda by the shape of the scape which is narrower at its base than at the cup in N. queribunda but of equal width along all its length in N. courti.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- New South Wales
- Tasmania
- Victoria
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2011): Description of a new orb-weaving spider species representing the first record of Novaranea in Australia (Araneae: Araneidae: Araneinae). Zootaxa. 2793: 47 - 55