- Aname
Taxobox
name = "Aname"
image_caption = fangs of "A. atra"
image_width = 250px
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Arachnid a
ordo = Araneae
subordo =Mygalomorphae
familia =Nemesiidae
genus = "Aname"
genus_authority = L. Koch, 1873
diversity_link = List of Nemesiidae species#Aname
diversity = 33 species
range_
range_map_width = 250px
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.The spider genus "Aname" is endemic to
Australia , with one species ("A. tasmanica") found only onTasmania . It contains the "black wishbone spider", "A. atra".Spiders in this genus, together with the related and very similar genera "
Chenistonia " and "Namea", are called "wishbone spiders", for the shape of their open silk-lined burrow, which has the shape of the letter "Y", with one arm shorter than the other. Only the longer arm reaches the surface. The shorter arm is believed to allow the spider to survive flooding by trapping an air bubble.While "Aname" prefers dry open country and occurs throughout much of
Australia (though mostly inland), "Chenistonia" occurs mostly in south and western Australia, and "Namea" is only known along the east coasts in rain forests.The "Lesser Wishbone Spider" ("A. distincta") occurs through lowland open forests of the
Moreton Valley as far north as Eidsvold and Gayndah, the "Greater Wishbone Spider" "A. pallida" from Gladstone along the dry coastal corridors toCairns .Bites from "Aname" are rare, but females of "A. inimica" (also called "unfriendly" by aboriginals) are reported to have bitten several people, resulting in local pain, redness and soreness.
pecies
* "
Aname armigera " Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 — Western Australia
* "Aname atra " (Strand, 1913) — South Australia
* "Aname aurea " Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 — New South Wales
* "Aname barrema " Raven, 1985 — Queensland
* "Aname blackdownensis " Raven, 1985 — Queensland
* "Aname camara " Raven, 1985 — Queensland
* "Aname carina " Raven, 1985 — Queensland
* "Aname coenosa " Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 — South Australia
* "Aname collinsorum " Raven, 1985 — Queensland
* "Aname comosa " Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 — South Australia
* "Aname cuspidata " (Main, 1954) — Western Australia
* "Aname distincta " (Rainbow, 1914) — Queensland
* "Aname diversicolor " (Hogg, 1902) — Queensland
* "Aname earthwatchorum " Raven, 1984 — Queensland
* "Aname fuscocincta " Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 — Western Australia
* "Aname grandis " Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 — South Australia
* "Aname hirsuta " Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 — South Australia
* "Aname humptydoo " Raven, 1985 — Northern Territory
* "Aname inimica " Raven, 1985 — Queensland, New South Wales
* "Aname kirrama " Raven, 1984 — Queensland
* "Aname longitheca " Raven, 1985 — Queensland
* "Aname maculata " (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918) — Western Australia
* "Aname mainae " Raven, 2000 — South Australia
* "Aname pallida " L. Koch, 1873 — Queensland
* "Aname platypus " (L. Koch, 1875) — Australia
* "Aname robertsorum " Raven, 1985 — Queensland
* "Aname tasmanica " Hogg, 1902 — Tasmania
* "Aname tepperi " (Hogg, 1902) — Southern Australia
* "Aname tigrina " Raven, 1985 — Queensland
* "Aname tropica " Raven, 1984 — Queensland
* "Aname turrigera " Main, 1994 — Western Australia, South Australia
* "Aname villosa " (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918) — Western Australia
* "Aname warialda " Raven, 1985 — Queensland, New South WalesReferences
* Robert Raven: [http://www.uq.edu.au/~xxrraven/nemesres.html Wishbone Spiders]
* (2008): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.5. "American Museum of Natural History".
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