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Issue: Vol. 5092 No. 3: 20 Jan. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-01-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5092.3.6
Page range: 350-360
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Two new species in the orb-weaving spider genus Larinia Simon, 1874 (Araneae, Araneidae) from Western Australia

Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, 90 South St, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150, Australia. 2Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Western Australian Museum, Locked Bag 49, Welshpool DC, Western Australia 6986, Australia.
Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, 90 South St, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150, Australia. Laboratório de Diversidade de Aracnídeos, Universidade do Brasil/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Av. Carlos Chagas Filho 373, 21941-902, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Araneae Barrow Island Mangorini nucteneines taxonomy

Abstract

Two new species in the orb-weaving spider genus Larinia Simon, 1874 are described, L. sexta n. sp. and L. tumulus n. sp. This elevates the Australian number of described species in the genus to seven. With the exception of two females of L. sexta n. sp. recorded from mainland Western Australia, both species have so far exclusively been found on Barrow Island, 50 km off the north-western Western Australian coast where a third species, L. montagui Hogg, 1914, also occurs. Both new species appear to favour spinifex (Triodia spp.) grassland, but specimen numbers in collections are too low to accurately characterize life history patterns and habitat preferences.

 

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