Wolf Spider Artoria pinnata Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2024
Fauna Portal species: 12469
Artoria pinnata male holotype, dorsal (WAM T69496; Mt Ragged, Cape Arid National Park, Western Australia)
Image: Prado, Baptista & Framenau (2024)
Diagnosis
(after Prado et al. 2024): The tegular apophysis of the male pedipalp of A. pinnata is similar to that of A. equipalus with two rounded and large distal lobes, but they differ by the position of the lobes, with the inner surfaces facing each other in A. pinnata, while they both face ventrally in A.equipalus (Framenau & Baehr; fig. 17E). In addition, males of A. pinnata have a much smaller subtegulum in ventral view and a larger basoembolic apophysis. Females of A. pinnata differ from all other known Artoria by their epigyne bearing long lateral lobes without guide pockets and with sinuous mesal margins delimiting a subrectangular and flat median septum which is almost as long as the whole epigyne.
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