Maroota Artoria Artoria maroota Framenau & Baehr, 2018
Fauna Portal species: 7676
Artoria maroota male, dorsal (AM KS128075; Maroota State Forest, New South Wales)
Image: B.C. Baehr (2018)
Fauna Portal Image No. 4125Diagnosis
(after Framenau & Baehr 2018 and Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2026): Males of Artoria maroota can be distinguished from all other species of the genus by the black setal brushes on tibia I, and the inverted L-shaped tegular apophysis with the margins of its distal portion expanded, forming keels projecting ventrally. Females of A. maroota resemble those of A. cucurbita by having an epigyne with median septum with convex lateral and posterior margins, semicircular lateral lobes and globular spermathecae with long spermathecal stalks. However, females of A. maroota differ by having a median septum that is wider than long covering less than half of the length of the epigyne and spermathecal stalks attached ectally to the spermathecae, while in A. cucurbita the median septum is as wide as long and 2/3 as long as the epigyne and the spermathecal stalks attach dorsally to the spermathecae.
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