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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-11-10
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The first described male Tube-web Spider for mainland Australia: Ariadna kiwirrkurra sp. nov. (Araneae: Segestriidae)

Queensland Museum, P.O. Box 3300, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia CSER, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales 2308, Australia
Queensland Museum, P.O. Box 3300, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia
Araneae Segestriidae

Abstract

Males of Ariadna kiwirrkurra sp. nov., collected on the 2015 Bush Blitz biodiscovery expedition to the Kiwirrkurra Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) are the first Segestriid males described for mainland Australia.

 

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