Lampona

Lampona
Lampona or Lamponina species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Lamponidae
Genus:	Lampona Thorell, 1869 [1]
Type species
L. cylindrata (L. Koch, 1866)
Species
57, see text

Lampona is a genus of South Pacific spiders in the family Lamponidae that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869. ^[2] At least two species have a whitish tip to the abdomen and are known as "white-tailed spiders". Both hunt other spiders and have been introduced to New Zealand. The name is derived from the Middle English laumpe , meaning "light" or "fire".

Species

As of May 2019 ^[update] it contains fifty-seven species native to Australia and New Guinea: ^[1]

• L. airlie Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
• L. allyn Platnick, 2000 – Australia (New South Wales)
• L. ampeinna Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Western Australia, central Australia)
• L. barrow Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Western Australia)
• L. braemar Platnick, 2000 – Eastern Australia, Tasmania
• L. brevipes L. Koch, 1872 – Australia (Western Australia)
• L. bunya Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
• L. carlisle Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
• L. chalmers Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
• L. chinghee Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• L. cohuna Platnick, 2000 – Australia (South Australia, Victoria)
• L. cudgen Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria)
• L. cumberland Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Victoria)
• L. cylindrata (L. Koch, 1866) (type) – Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand
• L. danggali Platnick, 2000 – Central, Eastern Australia
• L. davies Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
• L. dwellingup Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Western Australia)
• L. eba Platnick, 2000 – Australia (South Australia)
• L. ewens Platnick, 2000 – Australia (South Australia, Tasmania)
• L. fife Platnick, 2000 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
• L. finke Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Northern Territory, South Australia)
• L. finnigan Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
• L. flavipes L. Koch, 1872 – Central, Eastern Australia
• L. foliifera Simon, 1908 – Australia (Western Australia, central Australia)
• L. garnet Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
• L. gilles Platnick, 2000 – Australia (South Australia)
• L. gosford Platnick, 2000 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
• L. hickmani Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Tasmania)
• L. hirsti Platnick, 2000 – Australia (South Australia)
• L. kapalga Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland)
• L. kirrama Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
• L. lamington Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
• L. lomond Platnick, 2000 – Southeastern Australia, Tasmania
• L. macilenta L. Koch, 1873 – Southern Australia
• L. mildura Platnick, 2000 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
• L. molloy Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
• L. monteithi Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
• L. moorilyanna Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland, South Australia)
• L. murina L. Koch, 1873 – Eastern Australia, New Zealand
• L. olga Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Northern Territory)
• L. ooldea Platnick, 2000 – Australia (South Australia, Victoria)
• L. papua Platnick, 2000 – New Guinea
• L. punctigera Simon, 1908 – Southern Australia
• L. pusilla L. Koch, 1873 – Eastern Australia
• L. quinqueplagiata Simon, 1908 – Australia (Western Australia)
• L. ruida L. Koch, 1873 – Eastern Australia, Tasmania
• L. russell Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
• L. spec Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
• L. superbus Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
• L. talbingo Platnick, 2000 – Southeastern Australia
• L. taroom Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
• L. terrors Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
• L. torbay Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Western Australia)
• L. tulley Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
• L. walsh Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Western Australia)
• L. whaleback Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Western Australia)
• L. yanchep Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Western Australia)

References

1. "Gen. Lampona Thorell, 1869". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-12.
2. Thorell, T. (1869). "On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 7 (3): 1–108.