Maude's Ladder-web Spider Telaprocera maudae Harmer & Framenau, 2008
Fauna Portal species: 6741
Telaprocera maudae male, dorsal (ZMUC 12220; Atherton Plateau, Rose Gums Wilderness Retreat, 12.4 km ENE of Malanda, Queensland)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2007)
Fauna Portal Image No. 3138Diagnosis
(after Harmer & Framenau 2008): This species is the larger of the two within the genus. However, in some instances sizes overlap, with smaller T. maudae adults being approximately the same size as large T. joanae adult females. Males have a large, shallow dish-shaped median apophysis, and a comparatively shorter, curved terminal apophysis, in contrast to T. joanae in which the median apophysis is much smaller, and the terminal apophysis is larger with a digitiform process. Females of T. maudae are distinguished by a narrower epigyne, with the short, distal portion of the scape angled anteriorly, back away from the copulatory openings, in contrast to T. joanae in which the epigyne is wider than long and the distal portion angled posteriorly.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- New South Wales
- Queensland
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2008): Telaprocera (Araneae: Araneidae), a new genus of Australian orb-web spiders with highly elongated webs. Zootaxa. 1956: 59 - 80