Sorrowful Kangarosa Kangarosa tristicula (L. Koch, 1877)
Fauna Portal species: 7715
Kangorosa tristucula male, dorsal (AM KS44505; Jamieson Park, Narrabeen, New South Wales)
Image: Framenau (2010; fig. 78)
Fauna Portal Image No. 4690Diagnosis
(after Framenau 2010): Kangarosa tristicula is most similar to K. alboguttulata. Males of both species have a basal edge on the tegular apophysis, however it forms a pointy protrusion in retrolateral view only in K. tristicula. The embolus of K. alboguttulata males have a unique digitiform process on the apical edge, absent in K. tristicula. Females of K. alboguttulata differ in the presence of interior atrium edges in form of an inverted ‘V’ which are absent or very weak in T. tristicula.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- New South Wales
- Queensland
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2010): Revision of the new Australian wolf spider genus Kangarosa (Araneae: Lycosidae: Artoriinae). Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny. 61: 113 - 142WEB