Five new species of the open-holed trapdoor spider genus Aname (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Anamidae) from Western Australia, with a revised generic placement for Aname armigeraWA Museum Records and Supplements | Updated 3 years agoABSTRACT – The open-holed trapdoor spider genus Aname L. Koch, 1873 is widely distributed throughout Australia, and currently contains 44 named species. Using a combination of morphological and molecular data, we describe five new species from the Wheatbelt, Mid-west and Goldfields regions of Western Australia: A. exulans sp. nov., A. lillianae sp. nov., A. mccleeryorum sp. nov., A. phillipae sp. nov. and A. simoneae sp. nov. The female holotype of Aname armigera Rainbow and Pulleine, 1918 from near Mullewa was examined and found to belong to the genus Proshermacha Simon forming the new combination P. armigera (Rainbow and Pulleine, 1918), comb. nov. Author(s) Mark S. Harvey, Karl Gruber, Mia J. Hillyer and Joel A. Huey Volume Records 35 : — Article Published 2020 Page Number 10 DOI 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.35.2020.010-038 Five new species of the open-holed trapdoor spider genus Aname (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Anamidae) from Western Australia, with a Download 15.71 MB To request an accessible version of this pdf please email onlineservices@museum.wa.gov.au