Genus Therlinya Gray & Smith, 2002

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• Therlinya Gray, M.R. & Smith, H.M. 2002. Therlinya, a new genus of spiders from eastern Australia (Araneae: Amaurobioidea). Records of the Australian Museum 54: 293-312 [296-299].

  Type species:

   Therlinya kiah Gray & Smith, 2002 by original designation.

Introduction

The genus Therlinya, along with several more recently described genera (Gray & Smith 2004, 2008), is included in the subfamily Borralinae Gray & Smith, 2008. Members of all other genera in the subfamily have a longitudinally striped carapace which in males is usually distinctly highest at the fovea; species of Therlinya lack these stripes and the carapace is gently arched in both sexes. All Borralinae are forest-dwelling species 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, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

General References

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

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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