Common Ariadna Ariadna tangara Marsh, Baehr, Glatz & Framenau, 2018
Fauna Portal species: 8918
Ariadna tangara male, dorsal (SAM NN29863; Tangara Drive, American River, Kangaroo Island, South Australia)
Image: Marsh et al. (2018; fig. 4A)
Fauna Portal Image No. 7503Diagnosis
(after Marsh et al. 2002): Ariadna tangara can be differentiated from all other described species of Ariadna in Australia by the presence of a group of three large macrosetae on a shared, raised base, apically on the retrolateral surface of tibia I of males. Females can be distinguished from other species by the genitalia, with the ventral lobe being more or less straight and around 1.25 times the length of the dorsal lobe and without an apical ventral fold as seen in A. woinarskii. Of the closest Tasmanian species, it can be differentiated from Ariadna major by the number of macrosetae in metatarsus IV, of which there are seven in A. major, but four in A. tangara.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
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Publications
(2022): The Tube-Web Spiders of the Genus Ariadna (Araneae: Segestriidae) from South Australia and Victoria. Taxonomy. 2: 370 - 461DOI