Barrow Island Flat Ground Spider Fissarena barrow Platnick, 2002
Fauna Portal species: 356
Fissarena barrow male, dorsal (HBI N16700-3; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 9314Diagnosis
(after Platnick 2002): Females resemble those of F. ethabuka in having medially touching epigynal ducts, which divide the spermathecae into anterior and posterior portions, but differ in having a long epigynal atrium.
Males were unknown when the species was described but can be diagnosed by the unique, claw-like tip of the conductor of the pedipalp.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2002): A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, and Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 271: 1 - 243