Lampona facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Lampona |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Lamponidae |
| Genus: | Lampona Thorell, 1869 |
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| L. cylindrata (L. Koch, 1866)
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Lampona is a genus of South Pacific spiders in the family Lamponidae that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869. 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:
- 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)
See also
In Spanish: Lampona para niños
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