Great Victoria Desert Asadipus
Asadipus
FP-12391
Discoverer: V.W. Framenau (2023)
Fauna Portal species: 12391
Asadipus FP-12391 male, dorsal (HBI N28455-3; Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2023)
Fauna Portal Image No. 6216Diagnosis
The male of Asadipus FP-12391 is most similar to A. kunderang as illustrated in Platnick (2000) based on the shap of the prolateral tegular apophysis, but the retrolateral tibial apophysis is much shorter and all other key sclerites of the pedipalp are significantly different. The female epigyne, in particular the shape of the internal spermducts, ist most similar to that of A. phaleratus, but the anterior openings of the epigyne are larger and the epigyne is lacking the V-shaped ridge present in A. phaleratus.
Status
- native
Fauna Portal Reference
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2000): A relimitation and revision of the Australasian ground spider family Lamponidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 245: 1 - 330