Megadolomedes australianus

Megadolomedes australianus
Female from Chatswood, New South Wales
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Dolomedidae
Genus:	Megadolomedes
Species:	M. australianus
Binomial name
Megadolomedes australianus (L. Koch, 1865) [1]
Synonyms [1]
Dolomedes australianusL. Koch, 1865 Dolomedes cervinusL. Koch, 1876

Megadolomedes australianus is a species of spider endemic to Australia in the family Dolomedidae. It was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1865. ^[2]

Description

Females have a total body length of around 31.9 mm (1.26 in). ^[3] Where their distribution overlaps with the closely related Megadolomedes trux , they can be distinguished by examination of the palpal tibia in males and the epigyne in females.^{[ citation needed ]}

Distribution

M. australianus is known only from New South Wales, from the Nepean River to Wollongong. ^[3]

References

1. World Spider Catalog. "Megadolomedes australianus (L. Koch, 1865)". World Spider Catalog . Version 25.5. Bern, Switzerland: Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 13 January 2025.
2. Koch, Ludwig (1865). "Beschreibungen neuer Arachniden und Myriopoden". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 15: 857–892. Retrieved 13 January 2025– via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
3. Raven, R. J.; Hebron, W. (2018). "A review of the Water spider family Pisauridae in Australia and New Caledonia with descriptions of four new genera and 23 new species". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 60: 233–381. doi: 10.17082/j.2204-1478.60.2018.2017-06 . ISSN   0079-8835 . Retrieved 13 January 2025.