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 ', meaning "light" or "fire".
Species
it contains fifty-seven species native to Australia and New Guinea:
- L. airlie <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland)
- L. allyn <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (New South Wales)
- L. ampeinna <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Western Australia, central Australia)
- L. barrow <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Western Australia)
- L. braemar <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Eastern Australia, Tasmania
- L. brevipes <small>L. Koch, 1872</small> â Australia (Western Australia)
- L. bunya <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland)
- L. carlisle <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland)
- L. chalmers <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland)
- L. chinghee <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- L. cohuna <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (South Australia, Victoria)
- L. cudgen <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria)
- L. cumberland <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Victoria)
- L. cylindrata <small>(L. Koch, 1866)</small> (type) â Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand
- L. danggali <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Central, Eastern Australia
- L. davies <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland)
- L. dwellingup <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Western Australia)
- L. eba <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (South Australia)
- L. ewens <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (South Australia, Tasmania)
- L. fife <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
- L. finke <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Northern Territory, South Australia)
- L. finnigan <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland)
- L. flavipes <small>L. Koch, 1872</small> â Central, Eastern Australia
- L. foliifera <small>Simon, 1908</small> â Australia (Western Australia, central Australia)
- L. garnet <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland)
- L. gilles <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (South Australia)
- L. gosford <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
- L. hickmani <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Tasmania)
- L. hirsti <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (South Australia)
- L. kapalga <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland)
- L. kirrama <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland)
- L. lamington <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland)
- L. lomond <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Southeastern Australia, Tasmania
- L. macilenta <small>L. Koch, 1873</small> â Southern Australia
- L. mildura <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
- L. molloy <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland)
- L. monteithi <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland)
- L. moorilyanna <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland, South Australia)
- L. murina <small>L. Koch, 1873</small> â Eastern Australia, New Zealand
- L. olga <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Northern Territory)
- L. ooldea <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (South Australia, Victoria)
- L. papua <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â New Guinea
- L. punctigera <small>Simon, 1908</small> â Southern Australia
- L. pusilla <small>L. Koch, 1873</small> â Eastern Australia
- L. quinqueplagiata <small>Simon, 1908</small> â Australia (Western Australia)
- L. ruida <small>L. Koch, 1873</small> â Eastern Australia, Tasmania
- L. russell <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland)
- L. spec <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland)
- L. superbus <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland)
- L. talbingo <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Southeastern Australia
- L. taroom <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland)
- L. terrors <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland)
- L. torbay <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Western Australia)
- L. tulley <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Queensland)
- L. walsh <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Western Australia)
- L. whaleback <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Western Australia)
- L. yanchep <small>Platnick, 2000</small> â Australia (Western Australia)
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