Elegant Lynx Spider Oxyopes elegans L. Koch, 1878
Fauna Portal species: 8298
Oxyopes elegens female, dorsal (ZMH A0000006; Sydney, New South Wales)
Image: Baehr et al. (2017; fig. 6A)
Fauna Portal Image No. 8269Diagnosis
(after Baehr et al. 2017): Females of Oxyopes elegans are similar to O. godeffroyi, O. mundulus and O. rubicundus in having a translucent, quadrangular scapus. They can be separated from O. mundulus by the scapus anterior corners less sclerotized and straight, and from O. godeffroyi and O. rubicundus in having copulatory ducts with 3 coils. Male reported unknown (Baehr et al. 2017), but illustrated in Grimshaw (1991).
Status
- native
Linnean Lectotype(s)
Australia
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2017): The Australian Lynx Spiders (Araneae, Oxyopidae, Oxyopes) of the Godeffroy Collection, including the description of a new species. Evolutionary Systematics. 1: 11 - 37
(1991): Revision of the Oxyopidae (Araneae: Arachnida) of Australia. M.Sc. Thesis. University of Queensland, Brisbane.