Small, mottled brown crab spiders; embolus turning around about half the tegulum, the ventral and retrolateral apophysis forming claw-like oposing branches.
Crab or Flower Spiders
Thomisidae
(after Framenau et al. 2014): Many Crab Spiders are readily recognised as such. Their first two pairs of legs are longer and stronger than the two rear pairs and all are directed to the side (‘laterigrade’). But even in absence of this typical appearance, Crab Spiders can be recognised by the comparatively large lateral eyes that sit on elevated tubercles
Genus 3664
1 species
No modern diagnosis; abdomen somewhat elongated and male pedipalp with elongated retrolateral tibial apophysis.
Hedana
1 species
Frequently presenting lichen, sand and other soil particles attached to their tegument, male with well-developed palpi with cymbial projection, long and curved retrolateral tibila apophysis and filiform embolus; females with a flattened atrium and folds of the epigynal plate strongly sclerotized.
Isala
2 species
Australian Sidymella are misplaced in this Neotropical genus.
Sidymella
1 species
Stephanopis
2 species
Dark brown to black doso-ventrally flattened spiders with white or pale carapace and abdominal markings. The retrolateral tibial apophysis of the male pedipalp is very complex, the atrium of the female epigyne longer than wide.
Tharpyna
2 species
Spiders with black dots on dorsum of opisthosoma, narrow ocular area of eye tubercles and eye lenses on prosoma; pale and poorly sclerotised female epigyne with small central hood; male pedipalp simple with embolus coiling around tegular discs at most a half turn, retrolateral tibial apophysis usually in the form of inverted cone.
Tharrhalea
2 species
Dorsoposterior tubercle or hump, more prominent in females, Males pedipalp with tegulum with or without apophyses and a stout or elongated embolus. Females epigyne with broad epigynal hood or a vertical epigynal ridge and small spermathecae.
Tmarus
1 species
Publications
Framenau VW, Baehr BC, Zborowski P (2014): A guide to the spiders of Australia. New Holland Publishers, 1 - 448
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Araneae (Spiders)
- Actinopodidae
- Anamidae
- Araneidae
- Barychelidae
- Cheiracanthiidae
- Clubionidae
- Corinnidae
- Deinopidae
- Desidae
- Dictynidae
- Filistatidae
- Gnaphosidae
- Halonoproctidae
- Hersiliidae
- Idiopidae
- Lamponidae
- Linyphiidae
- Lycosidae
- Mimetidae
- Miturgidae
- Mysmenidae
- Oecobiidae
- Oonopidae
- Oxyopidae
- Philodromidae
- Prodidomidae
- Salticidae
- Scytodidae
- Segestriidae
- Selenopidae
- Sparassidae
- Theridiidae
- Thomisidae
- Trachelidae
- Trachycosmidae
- Trochanteriidae
- Uloboridae
- Zodariidae
All classes
- Arachnida
- Crustacea
- Insecta
- Orthoptera - Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
- Hymenoptera excl. Formicidae (bees and wasps)
- Blattodea s. str. (Cockroaches)
- Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Dermaptera (earwigs)
- Diptera (flies, mosquitos)
- Hemiptera - Heteroptera (True Bugs)
- Hemiptera - Sternorrhyncha (aphids, scales etc.)
- Hemiptera - Auchenorrhyncha (cicadas, planthoppers)
- Hymenoptera - Formicidae (Ants)
- Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
- Myriapoda