Jenolan Caves Laetesia Laetesia weburdi (Urquhart, 1890)
Fauna Portal species: 7557
Laetesia weburdi female, lateral (holotype from Jenolan Caves, New South Wales).
Image: Urquhart (1890; fig. 2)
Fauna Portal Image No. 5891Diagnosis
(after Urquhart 1890): Corpus vulvale (epigyne) represents a large, brownish, transversely wrinkled cucullus, nearly as broad as long; sides prolonged into rather wide processes, concave on inner side, apices rounded, beaded; projecting from within, and rather beyond the lateral processes, is a yellowish broad scape, apex rounded, beading reddish.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- New South Wales
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Publications
(1890): On two species of Araneae new to science, from the Jenolan Caves, New South Wales. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 22: 236 - 239