Armoured Lamponina Lamponina scutata (Strand, 1913)
Fauna Portal species: 220
Lamponina scutata male, dorsal (HBI N7078-1; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 7540Diagnosis
(after Platnick 2000): Males have a distinct, oblique constriction at roughly half the length of the ventral surface of the palpal femur and a protruding distoventral edge on the retrolateral tibial apophysis, as well as an elongated conductor reaching beyond the tip of the palpal bulb. Females have relatively large spermathecae, with medially directed ducts budding off relatively long stalks.
Status
- native
Linnean Type
Female holotype from central Australia, no specific locality, in Natural History Museum Senckenberg, Frankfurt (Platnick 2000).
Australia
- 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