Genus Tartarus Gray, 1973
- Tartarus Gray, M.R. 1973. Cavernicolous spiders from the Nullarbor Plain and south-west Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 12: 207-221 [210-211].
Type species:
Tartarus mullamullangensis Gray, 1973 by original designation.
Introduction
The genus Tartarus comprises four species described from caves on the Hampton Tableland area of the Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia. The genus is closely related to Baiami Lehtinen, but like troglobitic species of other invertebrate taxa, Tartarus spiders lack eyes and pigmentation. The web takes the form of a wide suspended funnel (‘lampshade’ shaped) inside which the spider sits on the substrate attachment.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
IBRA
WA: Hampton (HAM)
Distribution References
General References
Gray, M.R. 1981. A revision of the spider genus Baiami Lehtinen (Araneae, Amaurobioidea). Records of the Australian Museum 33: 779-802
Gray, M.R. 1992. The troglobitic spider genus Tartarus Gray with a cladistic analysis of Tartarus and Baiami Lehtinen (Araneae: Stiphidiidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 113: 165-173
Main, B.Y. 1976. Spiders. Sydney : Collins 296 pp. [158, 163]
History of changes
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