Wolf Spider Artoria trifida
Fauna Portal species: 12475
Artoria trifida male holotype, dorsal (WAM T162518; Lake Fox, SE of Hyden, Western Australia)
Image: Prado, Baptista & Framenau (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 8177Diagnosis
(after Prado et al. 2024): Males of Artoria trifida are distinguishable from those of all currently described Artoria species by their pedipalps having a trifid tegular apophysis, with a long basal prolateral prong and two distal prongs, the most ventral carrying distal spines and pointing apically and the dorsal one pointing prolaterally in ventral view. Their females are diagnosable by their epigynes bearing a lateral lobe with acute mesal median projections that almost touch each other in the median latitudinal line of the epigyne, dividing the median septum in a narrow-elevated ridge anteriorly between two deep concavities, and a rounded scape-like process posteriorly.
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