Seeman's Ground Spider Prodidomus seemani Platnick & Baehr, 2006
Fauna Portal species: 6176
Prodidomus seemani male, pedipalp ventral (QM S67697; Barakula State Forest, Queensland)
Image: Platnick & Baehr (2006; fig. 56)
Fauna Portal Image No. 8401Diagnosis
(after Platnick & Baehr 2006): Males resemble those of P. sampeyae but have the embolus longer and the conductor thin and elongate; the retrolateral tibial apophysis resembles that of P. sampeyae in having the most dorsal prong blunt and on a common mound together with other the two prongs. The close resemblance to those species makes it unlikely that this could be the male of P. yorke.
Prodidomus seemani is also similar to Prodidomus FP-13235, but males differ in the base of the conductor which is more kinked in the latter species.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Queensland
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Publications
(2006): A revision of the Australian ground spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Gnaphosoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 298: 1 - 287