Austrarchaea griswoldi

Austrarchaea griswoldi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Archaeoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Taxon: Neocribellatae Series: Entelegynae Superfamilia: Archaeoidea

Familia: Archaeidae
Genus: Austrarchaea
Species: Austrarchaea griswoldi

Name

Austrarchaea griswoldi Rix & Harvey, 2012: figs. 1A–D, 15, 24–25

Holotype: QMB S92212, ♂.

Type locality: Eungella National Park (Broken River Section), Broken River Rainforest Discovery Circuit and Granite Bend Circuit, Queensland, Australia, 21°10'07"S, 148°30'22"E, sifting elevated leaf litter under palms (especially fan palms), tropical rainforest, 684 m, 23.III.2012, M. & A. Rix.

Etymology: The specific epithet is a patronym in honour of Dr Charles Griswold, for his outstanding contributions to arachnology, and for his contributions to the study of Archaeidae and other basal Araneomorphae.

Mentions

Austrarchaea sp. n. Rix and Harvey 2012b: 379, figs 3, 6.

Primary references

Rix, M.G.; Harvey, M.S. 2012: Australian assassins, part III: a review of the assassin spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of tropical north-eastern Queensland. ZooKeys 218: 1-55. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.218.3662 Reference page.

Vernacular names

English: Eungella Assassin Spider

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