Goblin Spiders
Opopaea Simon, 1892
Type species: Opopaea deserticola Simon, 1892
Fauna Portal Genus Number: 783
(after Baehr et al. 2013): The swollen male palpal patella of Opopaea which arises subbasally on the femur is also found in Camptoscaphiella, Malagiella and Prethopalpus; they differ from Opopaea by the presence of legs spines in Camptoscaphiella and Malagiella, and the unfused cymbium and bulb in Camptoscaphiella and Prethopalpus. Opopaea females and males have a pair of small dorsolateral, triangular extensions on the pedicel as well as paired curved scutal ridges on the scuto-pedicel region. Females of Opopaea share with Prethopalpus the paddle-like sclerite (PSc) and the nail-like structure (Na), but lack the single, central receptaculum.
Publications
Baehr BC, Harvey MS, Smith HM, Ott R (2013): The goblin spider genus Opopaea in Australia and the Pacific islands (Araneae: Oonopidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature. 58: 107 - 338
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
- Trachelidae
- Trachycosmidae
- Trochanteriidae
- Zodariidae