Half-banded Wolf Spider Tasmanicosa semicincta (L. Koch, 1877)
Fauna Portal species: 7744
Tasmanicosa semicincta male, dorsal (QM S71191; Lake Broadwater, Queensland)
Image: Framenau & Baehr (2016; fig. 24A)
Fauna Portal Image No. 4530Diagnosis
(after Framenau & Baehr 2016): Tasmanicosa semicincta is the only representative of the genus in which the black pattern on the ventral opisthosoma is restricted to a narrow transverse band behind the epigastric furrow. Male and female genital morphology resembles that of T. ramosa in having an extremely long ridge of the tegular apophysis and corresponding long epigyne, but they can be distinguished, in addition to the ventral pattern by the more pointed processes of the tegular apophysis and smoother anterior parts of the median septum.
Status
- native
Linnean Syntype(s)
Australia
- New South Wales
- Queensland
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