Elongated White-tailed Spider Lamponina elongata Platnick, 2000
Fauna Portal species: 5293
Lamponina elongata male, dorsal (HBI N19252-16; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2023)
Fauna Portal Image No. 5457Diagnosis
(after Platnick 2000): Specimens of Lamponina elongata can easily be distinguished from those of the other known Lamponina species by their relatively long pedicel, their relatively narrow, elongated fourth femora, and (usually) their relatively pale coloration (the legs are usually yellow, and the anterior half of the abdomen is usually white). Males resemble those of L. scutata in having an oblique constriction at roughly half the length of the ventral surface of the palpal femur, but have a ventrally less protuberant retrolateral tibial apophysis. The female spermathecae are relatively long, and are often anteriorly divergent.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Northern Territory
- 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