Genus Borrala Gray & Smith, 2004

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• Borrala Gray, M.R. & Smith, H.M. 2004. The 'striped' group of stiphidiid spiders: two new genera from northeastern New South Wales, Australia (Araneae: Stiphidiidae: Amaurobioidea). Records of the Australian Museum 56: 123-138 [124-127].

  Type species:

   Borrala dorrigo Gray & Smith, 2004 by original designation.

Introduction

The genus Borrala comprises four species, all from far north-eastern New South Wales. This genus, along with seven others from Australia and New Guinea, comprises the subfamily Borralinae Gray & Smith, 2008. Members of most genera in the subfamily, including Borrala, have a longitudinally striped carapace which in males is usually distinctly highest at the fovea. They are forest-dwelling spiders that make a fine cribellate sheet web. The catching web is guyed out from a funnel-like retreat, typically in a rotten log, under bark or a rock or into a steep bank. The spiders run on the underside of the sheet.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

General References

Gray, M.R. & Smith, H.M. 2008. A new subfamily of spiders with grate-shaped tapeta from Australia and Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Stiphidiidae: Borralinae). Records of the Australian Museum 60: 13-44

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