Mt Kosciusko Huntress Venatrix kosciuskoenis (McKay, 1974)
Fauna Portal species: 7779
Venatrix kosciuskoensis male, pedipalp ventral (QM S21161; Falls Creek, Victoria)
Image: Framenau (2006; fig. 6B)
Fauna Portal Image No. 3576Diagnosis
(after Framenau 2006): Venatrix kosciuskoensis can be distinguished from all other species of Venatrix by its unique ventral pattern displaying a pair of white spots in the posterior half on a dark surface. Due to this unique pattern the key to the species of Venatrix (Framenau and Vink 2001) fails in the first couplet to identify this species.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- New South Wales
- Victoria
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2006): The wolf spider genus Venatrix Roewer: new species, synonymies and generic transfers (Araneae, Lycosidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum. 23: 145 - 166WEB
(2001): Revision of the wolf spider genus Venatrix Roewer (Araneae:Lycosidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy. 15: 927 - 970