Tasmanian Union-Jack Wolf Spider Tasmanicosa subrufa (Karsch, 1878)
Fauna Portal species: 7746
Tasmanicosa subrufa male, dorsal (QM S66654; near Pillans Lake, Tasmania)
Image: Framenau & Baehr (2016; fig. 27A)
Fauna Portal Image No. 4550Diagnosis
(after Framenau & Baehr 2016): Males and females of Tasmanicosa subrufa resemble T. ramosa and T. semicincta in having a tegular apophysis with an extremely long ventral process and corresponding long epigyne, but can easily be distinguished from these species by colouration. Whereas the venter of T. subrufa is entirely black, it has a limited triangular black patch in T. ramosa (which also has a very distinctive dorsal opisthosoma pattern of transverse white lines) and is limited to a black transverse band behind the epigastric furrow in T. semicincta.
Status
- native
Linnean Type
Syntypes: 2 females (one without opisthosoma), Vandiemensland (= Tasmania, AUSTRALIA), Schayer (ZMB 1962) (Framenau & Baehr 2016)
Australia
- New South Wales
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
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