Rabbit-head Palp Artoria Artoria cunicularia Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2026
Fauna Portal species: 12480
Artoria cunicularia female, dorsal habitus (QM S59933; 3 km SW of Wetheron, Queensland)
Image: Prado, Baptista & Framenau (2026; fig. 11A)
Fauna Portal Image No. 14687Diagnosis
(after Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2026): Males of A. cunicularia resemble those of A. pinnata Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2024 by their pedipalp bearing a tegular apophysis divided distally into two large and rounded lobes. However, while in A. cunicularia the retrolateral lobe is clearly larger than the prolateral, and has an evenly rounded margin and a median rim projecting ventrally, in A. pinnata the rounded lobes share similar size and the retrolateral lobe does not have a projecting median rim and has an acute retrolateral tip. Females of A. cunicularia are easily distinguishable from all known species of Artoria due to their epigyne with lateral lobes forming at each side a long, narrow and sclerotized keel projected ventrally.
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Queensland
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Publications
(2026): Taxonomic revision of the wolf spider genus Artoria (Araneae, Lycosidae, Artoriinae) from Northern Territory and Queensland, with additions to the fauna of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Megataxa. 19: 379 - 456DOI