Species Namea flavomaculata (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aname flavomaculata Rainbow, W.J. & Pulleine, R.H. 1918. Australian trap-door spiders. Records of the Australian Museum 12: 81-169 [24 Dec. 1918] [146].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K40942, KS8189 ♀ adult (Raven, R.J. 1984. A new diplurid genus from eastern Australia and a related Aname species (Diplurinae: Dipluridae: Araneae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 96: 1–51 [26 Jan. 1984] [31] designated the specimen AM KS58189 as a lectotype; this specimen, however, was labelled by Rainbow as 'TYPE'; as no other specimen, such as the 'half-grown' one mentioned by Rainbow & Pulleine following their description can be traced and registration refers to a single specimen, AM KS8189 is regarded as the holotype), Tamborine Mtn, QLD.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

MacPherson Ranges, e.g. Mt Tamborine, Lamington and Tooloom.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

 

General References

Main, B.Y. 1976. Spiders. Sydney : Collins 296 pp. (as Ixamatus flavomaculatus)

Main, B.Y. 1981. Eco-evolutionary radiation of Mygalomorph spiders in Australia. pp. 853-872 in Keast, A. (ed.). Ecological Biogeography of Australia. The Hague : Dr. W. Junk. (biology; species misidentified as Ixamatus flavomaculatus (Rainbow & Pulleine))

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Oct-2020		29-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)