Sculptured Flat Ground Spider Trachycosmus sculptilis Simon, 1893
Fauna Portal species: 9582
Trachycosmus sculptilis male, dorsal (HBI N28703-1; NNW. of Quindanning, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 9463Diagnosis
(after Platnick 2002): Males are easily recognized by the greatly elongated tip of the palpal cymbium, females by the kidney-shaped anterior ends of the epigynal ducts.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- 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