{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Barrowammo waldockae | authority = Platnick, 2002<ref name=NMBE /> }}
'''''Barrowammo''''' is a genus of North and West Australian termite hunters containing the single species, '''''Barrowammo waldockae'''''. It was first described by Norman I. Platnick in 2002,<ref name="Plat2002">{{cite journal |last=Platnick |first=N. I. |year=2002 |title=A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, and Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea). |url=https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/494 |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=271 |pages=1–243 |doi=}}</ref> and has only been found in Australia.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web| title=Gen. Barrowammo Platnick, 2002| website=World Spider Catalog| access-date=2019-05-08| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/128}}</ref> The name is a portmanteau of Barrow Island and Ammoxenidae.<ref name="Platnick">{{cite journal |last=Platnick |first=N.I. |year=2002 |title=A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, and Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea) |url=https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/494 |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=271 |pages=18–19 |doi=}}</ref>
Members of this genus are most similar to ''Austrammo'', but there are several distinct differences. Notably, they lack setae on the back of the last segment of the pedipalp, which is a defining characteristic of ''Austrammo''. In males, there are tubercles on the bulb of the pedipalp and a scutum on the back of the abdomen that doesn't occur in members of ''Austrammo''. In females, the abdomen is rectangular, while those of ''Austrammo'' are triangular.<ref name=Platnick/> These differences were considered enough to create a new genus.
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Category:Ammoxenidae Category:Spiders of Australia Category:Monotypic Gnaphosidae genera Category:Taxa named by Norman I. Platnick
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