Lampona

Lampona
Lampona or Lamponina species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Lamponidae
Genus:	Lampona Thorell, 1869[1]
Diversity
57 species

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

As of March 2016, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:^[1]

• 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) (type species) – 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

1. "Gen. Lampona Thorell, 1869", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), retrieved 2016-03-24