Wolf Spider Artoria emu Prado, Baptista & Framenau (2
Fauna Portal species: 10968
Artoria FP-10968 male, dorsal (WAM T98120; 3.2 km SW Giles Point, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2008)
Fauna Portal Image No. 921Diagnosis
(after Prado et al. 2024): The male pedipalp of A. emu resembles that of A. plicata with the distal portion of its tegular apophyses bearing a retrolateral rounded projection pointing basally and by having a poorly sclerotized basoembolic apophyses with rounded tip. However, in A. emu the tegular apophysis is shorter and narrower, with an evenly rounded distal margin, and the retrolateral projection has robust elevated and heavily sclerotized distal and proximal margins which delimit a median latitudinal concavity, while in A. plicata the tegular apophysis has a plicated distal margin, and the retrolateral projection is thin, slightly translucent and with a central and rounded concavity.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
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Publications
(2024): Taxonomy of the wolf spider genus Artoria in Western Australia, Australia (Araneae, Lycosidae, Artoriinae). Zootaxa. 5547: 1 - 81DOI