Decorated Lynx Spider Oxyopes mundulus L. Koch, 1878
Fauna Portal species: 6135
Oxyopes mundulus female, dorsal (ZMH A0000015; Sydney, New South Wales)
Image: Baehr et al. (2017; fig. 12A)
Fauna Portal Image No. 8303Diagnosis
(after Baehr et al. 2017): Females of O. mundulus are similar to O. elegans and O. godeffroyi,O. rubicundus in having a translucent, quadrangular scapus. They can be separated from O. godeffroyi by having copulatory ducts with 3 coils, and from O. elegans and O. rubicundus by the more heavily sclerotized and downward curved anterolateral scapus tips, from O. gracilipes by having the spermathecae an anterior position.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Victoria
- Western 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