Horse Swamp Artoria Artoria equipalus Framenau & Baehr, 2018
Fauna Portal species: 7667
Artoria equipalus male, dorsal (AM KS122934; Barrington Tops National Park, New South Wales)
Image: B.C. Baehr (2018)
Fauna Portal Image No. 4021Diagnosis
(after Framenau & Baehr 2018): Males of A. equipalus share with A. booderee, A. corowa and A. munmorah a distinctly bi-lobed tegular apophysis, but differ from these by the basal lobe of the tegular apophysis being more sclerotized and oriented more ‘horizontally’ in ventral view. The cymbium tip in A. equipalus has 4–5 macrosetae, which are absent in A. corowa and A. munmorah. Artoria booderee has 2–3 macrosetae on the cymbium tip which is more elongate than that of A. equipalus. The epigyne of female A. equipalus is most similar to that of A. mungo, but the shape of the spermathecal heads is very different in both species with in particular with respect to the insertion of the spermathecal stalks (postero-medial in A. equipalus, lateral in A. mungo).
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- New South Wales
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Publications
(2018): The wolf spider genus Artoria in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Australia (Araneae, Lycosidae, Artoriinae). Evolutionary Systematics. 2: 169 - 241