Wandella pallida Gray 1994

Ivan L. F. Magalhaes, 2016, On new or poorly known Australian Filistatidae spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae), including a study on the fine morphology of Wandella, Journal of Natural History 50 (29 - 30), pp. 1815-1858 : 41

Wandella pallida Gray 1994

Wandella pallida Gray 1994 , p. 59, figs. 8, 78 – 79, 101 – 102, 113 – 115.

Male holotype from Cave KJ-8, Jeremiah Hills, WA, 15°27' S, 128°45' E, 25/VI/1990, P. Drew, on stone/soil floor in dark zone (S43), deposited in WAM 90/1915, not examined.

Distribution

Known only from two caves in northeastern Western Australia (newly recorded from cave KJ-7) ( Figure 15 ).

Material examined

Australia. Western Australia: 36 km north of Kununurra, Jeremiah Hills, cave KJ-7 (128.73333°, −15.45°, m), B. Vine, 5/V/1994, 1 ♀ 1 imm. ( WAM T132989); 36 km north of Kununurra, Jeremiah Hills, cave KJ-8 (128.73333°, −15.43333°, m), R.D. Brooks, 17/V/ 1994, 1 ♂ 3 ♀ ( WAM T133002).

Figures

Figure 15. Distribution maps for Australian filistatids (including records by Gray 1994). Above: triangles = Wandella barbarella, white circles = Wandella diamentina, stars = Wandella grayi, black circles = Wandella murrayensis, asterisks = Wandella orana, crosses = Wandella parnabyi, white squares = Wandella waldockae. Below: triangles = Wandella alinjarra, black circles = Wandella australiensis, asterisks = Wandella centralis, star = Wandella infernalis, cross = Wandella pallida, white circles = Wandella stuartensis, squares = Yardiella humphreysi.