Wolf Spider Artoria taeniata Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2024
Fauna Portal species: 12473
Artoria taniata male holotype, dorsal (WAM T70857; Dryandra, Western Australia)
Image: Prado, Baptista & Framenau (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 8163Diagnosis
(after Prado et al. 2024): Males and females of Artoria taeniata resemble those of Artoria corowa Framenau & Baehr, 2018 which does not occur in Western Australia. Both species share male pedipalps with a broad, concave, ribbon-shaped tegular apophysis curved retrolaterally, but they differ by its distal part truncated and projected ventrally in Artoria taeniata (vs. bi-lobed and slightly projected in A. corowa; Framenau & Baehr 2018; fig. 14E). Females of both species have an epigyne with a bi-lobed projecting anterior margin of atrium, but in Artoria taeniata this projecting margin is shorter, also the lateral lobes are very close together, almost touching its tips, and more parallel to the epigastric furrow, while in A.corowathe lateral lobes are far apart and more perpendicular to the epigastric furrow (Framenau & Baehr 2018; fig. 14G).
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