Victorian Artoria Artoria victoriensis Framenau, Gotch & Austin, 2006
Fauna Portal species: 6104
Artoria victoriensis male, dorsal (AM KS84363; ‘Namron Park’ Farm, 12 km NNW of Mulwala, New South Wales)
Image: B.C. Baehr (2018)
Fauna Portal Image No. 3901Diagnosis
(after Framenau et al. 2006): Males of A. victoriensis can be distinguished from all other Australian Artoria by the shape of the median apophysis which resembles an upside-down sock in ventral view. The female epigyne is distinctively oval, with a white center and a sclerotized posterior rim reaching medially into this center. The specimens photographed here vary somewhat from those originally described (drawings), in particular with respect to the internal female genitalia. It is possible, that A. victoriensis may include more than one species pending a more detailed evaluation of its intraspecific variation across its wider range.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
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Publications
(2018): The wolf spider genus Artoria in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Australia (Araneae, Lycosidae, Artoriinae). Evolutionary Systematics. 2: 169 - 241
(2006): The wolf spiders of Artesian springs in arid South Australia, with a revalidation of Tetralycosa (Araneae, Lycosidae). Journal of Arachnology. 34: 1 - 36