Lake Gilles White-tailed Spider Lampona gilles Platnick, 2000
Fauna Portal species: 7435
Lampona gilles male, dorsal (HBI N18770-1; Tropicana Gold Mine, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2023)
Fauna Portal Image No. 6188Diagnosis
(after Platnick 2000): Males of Lampona gilles resemble those of L. quinqueplagiata and L. dwellingup in having a large protrusion on the palpal femur, but have the tip of the retrolateral tibial apophysis apically incised and bifid; females also have an arrow-shaped epigynal midpiece similar to that found in those species, but have longer epigynal margins that are less heavily sclerotized anteriorly, and the epigynal midpiece is greatly elevated.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- South 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