Taxonavigation
Taxonavigation: Archaeoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Archaeidae
Genus: Austrarchaea
Species: Austrarchaea thompsoni
Name
- Holotype: QMB S30840, ♂.
- Type locality: Devils Thumb area, [Daintree National Park (Mossman Gorge Section)], 10 km NW. of Mossman, Queensland, Australia, [16°27'S, 145°17'E], pyrethrum knockdown, tropical rainforest, 1000–1180 m, 10.X.1982, G. Monteith, D. Yeates, G. Thompson.
- Etymology: The specific epithet is a patronym in honour of Geoff Thompson, for his ongoing efforts in collecting and documenting the invertebrate rainforest fauna of the Wet Tropics, and for collecting the only known specimen of this species.
References
Primary references
- Rix, M.G.; Harvey, M.S. 2012: Australian assassins, part III: a review of the assassin spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of tropical north-eastern Queensland. ZooKeys 218: 1-55. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.218.3662 Reference page.
Vernacular names
English: Carbine Tableland Assassin Spider
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