Lampona
Lampona is a genus of spiders in the family Lamponidae and native to Australia and New Guinea. At least two species have a whitish tip to the abdomen and are known as white-tailed spiders. Both have been introduced to New Zealand. Both are hunting spiders, with other spiders their preferred prey.
Name
The genus name is derived from Latin lampo "shine".
Species
- Lampona airlie Platnick, 2000 (Queensland)
- Lampona allyn Platnick, 2000 (New South Wales)
- Lampona ampeinna Platnick, 2000 (Western Australia, central Australia)
- Lampona barrow Platnick, 2000 (Western Australia)
- Lampona braemar Platnick, 2000 (Eastern Australia, Tasmania)
- Lampona brevipes L. Koch, 1872 (Western Australia)
- Lampona bunya Platnick, 2000 (Queensland)
- Lampona carlisle Platnick, 2000 (Queensland)
- Lampona chalmers Platnick, 2000 (Queensland)
- Lampona chinghee Platnick, 2000 (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Lampona cohuna Platnick, 2000 (South Australia, Victoria)
- Lampona cudgen Platnick, 2000 (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria)
- Lampona cumberland Platnick, 2000 (Victoria)
- Lampona cylindrata (L. Koch, 1866) (Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand)
- Lampona danggali Platnick, 2000 (Central, Eastern Australia)
- Lampona davies Platnick, 2000 (Queensland)
- Lampona dwellingup Platnick, 2000 (Western Australia)
- Lampona eba Platnick, 2000 (South Australia)
- Lampona ewens Platnick, 2000 (South Australia, Tasmania)
- Lampona fife Platnick, 2000 (New South Wales, Victoria)
- Lampona finke Platnick, 2000 (Northern Territory, South Australia)
- Lampona finnigan Platnick, 2000 (Queensland)
- Lampona flavipes L. Koch, 1872 (Central, Eastern Australia)
- Lampona foliifera Simon, 1908 (Western Australia, central Australia)
- Lampona garnet Platnick, 2000 (Queensland)
- Lampona gilles Platnick, 2000 (South Australia)
- Lampona gosford Platnick, 2000 (New South Wales, Victoria)
- Lampona hickmani Platnick, 2000 (Tasmania)
- Lampona hirsti Platnick, 2000 (South Australia)
- Lampona kapalga Platnick, 2000 (Northern Territory, Queensland)
- Lampona kirrama Platnick, 2000 (Queensland)
- Lampona lamington Platnick, 2000 (Queensland)
- Lampona lomond Platnick, 2000 (Southeastern Australia, Tasmania)
- Lampona macilenta L. Koch, 1873 (Southern Australia)
- Lampona mildura Platnick, 2000 (New South Wales, Victoria)
- Lampona molloy Platnick, 2000 (Queensland)
- Lampona monteithi Platnick, 2000 (Queensland)
- Lampona moorilyanna Platnick, 2000 (Queensland, South Australia)
- Lampona murina L. Koch, 1873 (Eastern Australia, New Zealand)
- Lampona olga Platnick, 2000 (Northern Territory)
- Lampona ooldea Platnick, 2000 (South Australia, Victoria)
- Lampona papua Platnick, 2000 (New Guinea)
- Lampona punctigera Simon, 1908 (Southern Australia)
- Lampona pusilla L. Koch, 1873 (Eastern Australia)
- Lampona quinqueplagiata Simon, 1908 (Western Australia)
- Lampona ruida L. Koch, 1873 (Eastern Australia, Tasmania)
- Lampona russell Platnick, 2000 (Queensland)
- Lampona spec Platnick, 2000 (Queensland)
- Lampona superbus Platnick, 2000 (Queensland)
- Lampona talbingo Platnick, 2000 (Southeastern Australia)
- Lampona taroom Platnick, 2000 (Queensland)
- Lampona terrors Platnick, 2000 (Queensland)
- Lampona torbay Platnick, 2000 (Western Australia)
- Lampona tulley Platnick, 2000 (Queensland)
- Lampona walsh Platnick, 2000 (Western Australia)
- Lampona whaleback Platnick, 2000 (Western Australia)
- Lampona yanchep Platnick, 2000 (Western Australia)
References
- Platnick, N.I. (2000): A Relimitation and Revision of the Australasian Ground Spider Family Lamponidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 245: 1-330. Web version - Abstract, PDF