Yellow-handed Artoria Artoria flavimana Simon, 1909
Fauna Portal species: 7669
Artoria flavimana female, dorsal (WAM T63322; Capel, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2005)
Fauna Portal Image No. 3741Diagnosis
(after Framenau & Baehr 2018): Amongst currently described Artoria, A. flavimana is most similar to A. avona. The gaping shape of the tegular apophysis of the male pedipalp is distinctive. Males can also be identified be the distinctive leg formula, with leg I longer than leg IV (I>IV>II>III). The shape of the epigyne of A. flavimana has a semi-circular to pentagonal atrium which includes an isolated ovoid median septum.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2002): Review of the wolf spider genus Artoria Thorell (Araneae: Lycosidae). Invertebrate Systematics. 16: 209 - 235
(2018): The wolf spider genus Artoria in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Australia (Araneae, Lycosidae, Artoriinae). Evolutionary Systematics. 2: 169 - 241