Arkys speechleyi (Mascord 1968) Speechley's Arkys

This species is well camouflaged for the rainforest, the greenish abdomen heavily sclerotised and with dimples reminiscent of Dolophones species. In 1968 Mascord established Neoarchemorus with N. speechleyi as the only species, based on the shape of the carapace and abdomen, eye pattern, and spine arrangement on the legs. These distinctions were found to be insufficient for a new genus by Framenau, Scharff and Harvey in Systematics of the Australian orb-weaving spider genus Demadiana with comments on the generic classification of the Arkyinae (Araneae : Araneidae). ♀ 7mm ♂ 5mm