Vilkki's Venonia Venonia vilkkii Lehtinen & Hippa, 1979
Fauna Portal species: 7796
Venonia vilkkii female, epigyne ventral (ZMT AA7.680; from Bolu Bolu, Goodenough Island, Papua New Guinea)
Image: Yoo & Framenau (2006; fig. 23)
Fauna Portal Image No. 4741Diagnosis
(after Yoo & Framenau 2006): Females of Venonia vilkkii are easily identified by the wide distance between the spermathecae and the lack of spermathecal branches. Males unknown.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Queensland
Neighbouring Countries
- Papua New Guinea
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2006): Systematics and biogeography of the sheet-web building wolf spider genus Venonia (Araneae:Lycosidae). Invertebrate Systematics. 20: 675 - 712