Lord Howe Island Money Spider Bathyphantes rainbowi Roewer, 1942
Fauna Portal species: 7543
Bathyphantes rainbowi male, pedipalp retro- and prolateral (SAM; Lord Howe Island)
Image: Rainbow (1920; fig. 47)
Fauna Portal Image No. 6021Diagnosis
A diagnosis of Bathyphantes rainbowi cannot be given until the type material of this species has been examined and illustrated here with modern methods. In the interim, we here reproduce the illustrations of the original description (Rainbow 1920) to complete the listing of all Australian linyphiids on the Fauna Portal.
Status
- native
Linnean Syntype(s)
Australia
- Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(1920): Arachnida from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Records of the South Australian Museum. 1: 229 - 272