Stripe-less Prowling Spider
Miturgopelma Raven, 2023
Type species: Miturgopelma alanyeni Raven, 2023
Fauna Portal Genus Number: 496
(after Raven et al. 2023): Shares with Miturga the absence of claw tufts and the presence of unsclerotised parts of a bipartite retrolateral tibial apophysis on the male pedipalp, and differs in having both eye rows strongly recurved to the point of the back row being two rows in some species; in the very long legs with elongate tarsi of males, and the weak scopula of the anterior legs. Unlike Miturga, the apical segment of the posterior lateral spinnerets is conical, not digitiform, as is the case in a number of species placed in Miturga. Further differs from Miturga in the scopula absent on tibiae and very weak on tarsi and confined distally on metatarsi I and II, in distinctly recurved eye row and recurved front row with the anterior lateral eyes smaller than anterior median eyes. Males differ from those of Knotodo, Miturgiella, Xeromiturga, and Xistera in the broad embolus base directed prolaterally, with embolus tapering distally, and the retrolateral tibial apophysis consisting of two trianguloid plates restricted to the base of the cymbium and each joined by unsclerotised zone.
Publications
Raven RJ, Hebron W, Williams K (2023): Revisions of Australian ground-hunting spiders VI: five new stripe-less miturgid genera and 48 new species (Miturgidae: Miturginae). Zootaxa. 5358: 1 - 117DOI
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