Muncoonie Swift Spider Nucastia muncoonie Raven, 2015
Fauna Portal species: 6885
Nucastia muncoonie female, dorsal (HBI N28631-8; near Jibberding, Richards Road, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2022)
Fauna Portal Image No. 4123Diagnosis
(after Raven 2015): Among species in which the male has a dorsal scute for half the abdomen length, males differ from those of N. culburra in having a second pair of white spots on the dorsal abdomen behind the anterior pair. Females differ from those of all other Nucastia in the presence of an accessory diverticula on the head of the spermathecae.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Queensland
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2015): A revision of ant-mimicking spiders of the family Corinnidae (Araneae) in the Western Pacific. Zootaxa. 3958: 1 - 258