Kwonkan

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Remarks: The analysis recovered a monophyletic group of species including the genera Kwonkan , Yilgarnia and Swolnpes , as well as Aname turrigera Main, 1994 ( Fig. 3 View Figure 3 ). Females of this group possess a small and apparently synapomorphic medial accessory receptaculum on the spermathecae ( Main, 1983; Raven, 1984b; Castalanelli et al., 2014) ( Figs 13G View Figure 13 , 14G View Figure 14 , 15G View Figure 15 ), and males have a distinctive field of spinules on the retrolateral face of the pedipalpal tibia ( Main, 1983, 1986, 2008; Main & Framenau, 2009) ( Figs 13C View Figure 13 , 14C View Figure 14 , 15C View Figure 15 ). Whether these modified setae also occur in A. turrigera will depend on males being identified, as it was originally described only from females ( Main, 1994).

Our analysis found good support for the Kwonkan group, but the internal relationships were less well resolved ( Fig. 3 View Figure 3 ). Species of Swolnpes were sister to the other taxa ( Fig. 3 View Figure 3 ), but Kwonkan and Yilgarnia are treated as synonyms (see below).