Variable Lynx Spider Oxyopes variabilis L. Koch, 1878
Fauna Portal species: 6127
Oxyopes variabilis male, dorsal (HBI N17567-1; Lake Lefroy, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 8097Diagnosis
(after Grimshaw 1991): Oxyopes variabilis is easily recognised by its stocky shape and dark colour, with a prominent, mid ventral, white stripe.
(after Baehr et al. 2017): Females of Oxyopes variabilis are similar to females of Oxyopes amoenus but can be distinguished by the epigyne having longer lateral lobes in inverted v-shaped position and the copulatory ducts having 7 thin coils.
The cymbial process (= paracymbium) is broadly truncated in retrolateral view and apically concave.
Status
- native
Linnean Lectotype(s)
Australia
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- 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
(1991): Revision of the Oxyopidae (Araneae: Arachnida) of Australia. M.Sc. Thesis. University of Queensland, Brisbane.