Grinding Lynx Spider Oxyopes molarius L. Koch, 1878
Fauna Portal species: 8303
Oxyopes molarius female, dorsal (ZMH A0000013; Bowen, Queensland)
Image: Baehr et al. (2017; fig. 11A)
Fauna Portal Image No. 8299Diagnosis
(after Baehr et al. 2017): Females of Oxyopes molarius are similar to those of O. amoenus but can be distinguished from that by the longer lateral lobes in v-shaped position and the coils are mostly hidden behind the T-shaped scapus.
(after Whitehouse & Grimshaw 2007): Distinguishing between the palps of O. gracilipes and that of the other two species is relatively easy; O. gracilipes has a small, triangular cymbial apophysis (paracymbium) instead of the large, distinctively hooked cymbial apophysis of O. amoenus and O. molarius. However, distinguishing between males of O. molarius and O. amonenus is difficult. The only differences we found between the palps of these two species were the shape of the cymbium hook (the hook is longer and more curved in O. molarius) and the shape of a second cymbial apophysis, which is a small mound in O. molarius and bears a thickened proximal border resembling a hook in O. amoenus.
Status
- native
Linnean Lectotype(s)
Australia
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- South Australia
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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
(2007): Distinguishing between lynx spiders (Araneae: Oxyopidae) relevant to IPM in cotton in the Namoi Valley, New South Wales. Australian Entomologist. 34: 97 - 106