Mitchell Plateau Comb-footed Spider
Theridiidae gen. indet.
FP-14252
Discoverer: V.W. Framenau (2025)
Fauna Portal species: 14252
Order: Araneae (Spiders)
Family: Theridiidae
Diagnosis
This small theridiid has a very unique pedipalp morphology amongst all unplaced comb-footed spiders on the Fauna Portal.
Status
- native
Fauna Portal Reference
1 ♂
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Western Australian Museum
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T166935
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30 June 1993
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Australia
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Western Australia
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Mitchell Plateau, Mitchell Falls Road, 0.5 km from junction with Plateau Road
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Volker Framenau, 21 August 2025
Araneae (Spiders)
- Actinopodidae
- Anamidae
- Araneae fam. indet.
- Araneidae
- Archaeidae
- Argyronetidae
- Arkyidae
- Barychelidae
- Cheiracanthiidae
- Clubionidae
- Corinnidae
- Cycloctenidae
- Deinopidae
- Desidae
- Dictynidae
- Filistatidae
- Gnaphosidae
- Halonoproctidae
- Hersiliidae
- Idiopidae
- Lamponidae
- Linyphiidae
- Lycosidae
- Mimetidae
- Miturgidae
- Mysmenidae
- Nicodamidae
- Oecobiidae
- Oonopidae
- Oxyopidae
- Philodromidae
- Pholcidae
- Pisauridae
- Prodidomidae
- Salticidae
- Scytodidae
- Segestriidae
- Selenopidae
- Sparassidae
- Symphytognathidae
- Tetrablemmidae
- Tetragnathidae
- Theridiidae
- Thomisidae
- Trachelidae
- Trachycosmidae
- Trochanteriidae
- Uloboridae
- Zodariidae
- Zoropsidae
All classes
- Arachnida
- Crustacea
- Entognatha
- Gastropoda
- Insecta
- Orthoptera - Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
- Hymenoptera excl. Formicidae (bees and wasps)
- Blattodea s. str. (Cockroaches)
- Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Dermaptera (earwigs)
- Diptera (flies, mosquitos)
- Entomobryomorpha (slender springtails)
- Hemiptera - Heteroptera (True Bugs)
- Hemiptera - Sternorrhyncha (aphids, scales etc.)
- Hemiptera - Auchenorrhyncha (cicadas, planthoppers)
- Hymenoptera - Formicidae (Ants)
- Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
- Zygentoma (silverfish)
- Myriapoda