Four-lined Lynx Spider Oxyopes quadrifasciatus L. Koch, 1878
Fauna Portal species: 264
Oxyopes quadrifasciatus male, dorsal (HBI N914-2; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 8081Diagnosis
(after Baehr et al. 2017): The female of Oxyopes quadrifasciatus can be separated from females of all other described Australian Oxyopes species by the inverted anchor-shaped scapus with triangular tip and short outward directed lateral lobes.
The retrolateral cymbial process is very long with a broad base in ventral view, unique within Australian Oxyopes.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Queensland
- Western Australia
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