Kunderang Asadipus Asadipus kunderang Platnick, 2000
Fauna Portal species: 7374
Asadipus kunderang male, dorsal (HBI N33200-2; Hovea, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 8512Diagnosis
(after Platnick 2000): Males of this distinctive species can be recognized easily by the enormously elongated retrolateral tibial apophysis, which reaches almost to the distal tip of the cymbium, and the relatively wide palpal bulb and tegulum, females by the antero-medially directed epigynal openings and ducts.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Victoria
- 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