Black Solitary Communal Spider Phryganoporus nigrinus Simon, 1908
Fauna Portal species: 7056
Phryganoporus nigrinus male, dorsal (HBI N36285-2; Hovea, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2025)
Fauna Portal Image No. 11248Diagnosis
(after Gray 2002): Cribellum entire. Separated from P. davidleei by the dark brown posterodorsal abdominal patch and from P. melanopygus by the rather cylindrical body shape and the horizontal central limb of the S-shaped embolus/conductor. In solitary webs with tapering, horn-shaped retreats.
Gray (2002) reported the holotype female to be in the Natural History Museum Paris, but a second female collected at the type locality by Michaelsen and Hartmeyer (1905) is also present in the Zoological Museum, Berlin. These are therefore syntypes.
Status
- native
Linnean Syntype(s)
Australia
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Western Australia
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