Garden Wolf Spider Tasmanicosa godeffroyi (L. Koch, 1865)
Fauna Portal species: 4314
Tasmanicosa godeffroyi male, dorsal (MV K-11547; Ned's Corner, Victoria)
Image: Framenau & Baehr (2016; fig. 5A)
Fauna Portal Image No. 4443Diagnosis
(after Framenau & Baehr 2016): Males of Tasmanicosa godeffroyi have a very short ridge of the tegular apophysis; it is less than half the width of the tegular apophysis. Males of T. kochorum are most similar, but their ridge of the tegular apophysis reaches over half the width of the tegular apophysis. Females resemble T. kochorum and T. hughjackmani in their epigynal structure; the former has a medially bulging median septum (bulge absent in T. godeffroyi) and the latter has a median septum that is anteriorly wider than the posterior transverse part (as wide as posterior transverse part in T. godeffroyi).
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2016): Revision of the Australian Union-Jack wolf spiders, genus Tasmanicosa (Araneae, Lycosidae, Lycosinae). Zootaxa. 4213: 1 - 82