Wolf Spider Artoria pileata Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2024

(after Prado et al. 2024): The pedipalps of male Artoria pileata are similar to those of A. albopedipalpis Framenau, 2002, a species that does not occur in Western Australia, having a sinuous tegular apophysis with acute small projection on its prolateral margin, with a distal inner concavity, and a curved apex. However, in Artoria pileata the tegular apophysis is narrower, and more sclerotized, and the ventral margin of its distal part is thicker, less projected ventrally, appearing truncated in retrolateral view, while in A. albopedipalpis the tegular apophysis is wider, more sclerotized, with the ventral margin of its distal part thinner, very projected ventrally as an acute tip (Framenau 2002; fig. 1B). Females of Artoria pileata are distinguishable among those of other described Artoria by their epigyne with its atrium restricted to the posterior third of the epigyne, covered by the rounded expansion of its anterior margin, and delimited posteriorly by large lateral lobes. 

• native

• Western Australia