Plicated Artoria Artoria plicata Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2024
Fauna Portal species: 12479
Artoria plicata male holotype, dorsal (WAM T68736; Woodleigh Station, Western Australia)
Image: Prado, Baptista & Framenau (2024)
Diagnosis
(after Prado et al. 2024): The male pedipalp of A. plicata resembles that of A. emu with the distal portion of their tegular apophyses bearing a retrolateral rounded projection pointing basally and with a little sclerotized basoembolic apophyses bearing a rounded tip. However, in A. plicata the tegular apophysis is longer and wider, with a plicated distal margin, and a thin, plicated, slightly translucent retrolateral projection and with a central and rounded concavity, while in A. emu the tegular apophysis has an evenly rounded distal margin, and the retrolateral projection has robust elevated and heavily sclerotized distal and proximal margins which delimit a median latitudinal concavity.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2024): Taxonomy of the wolf spider genus Artoria in Western Australia, Australia (Araneae, Lycosidae, Artoriinae). Zootaxa. 5547: 1 - 81DOI