Wolf Spider Artoria aculeata Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2024

(after Prado et al. 2024): Males and females ofArtoria aculeata resemble those of A. impedita. The male pedipalp of both species bears a very broad tegular apophysis with a projecting ventral lobe and a dorsal lobe shaped as a keel curved retrolaterally and with a retrolateral spiniform projection, in addition to a reduced embolic division. However, the tegular apophysis of Artoria aculeata has a triangular ventral lobe in ventral view, with poorly sclerotized retrolateral margin and assuming a triangular acute shape with continuous margins in retrolateral view, while in A. impedita it appears as a stalk in ventral view, and as a more pronounced projection with two acute tips in retrolateral view. In addition, the dorsal lobe of the tegular apophysis of Artoria aculeata has a smooth distal margin, not serrated as in A. impedita. Considering the female genitalia, both species have a scape-like process originating from the median septum; however, this process is much shorter in A. aculeata and little projecting, the margins of the atrium are better delimited and contrasting with the membranous areas of the median septum, whilst the scape-like process in A. impedita is longer (folding over itself) and its surroundings merge with the poorly delimited margins of the atrium. 

• native

• Western Australia