Flat Ground Spider

Morebilus Platnick, 2002

Type species: Delena plagusia Walckenaer, 1837

Fauna Portal Genus Number: 2201

(after Platnick 2002): As these animals are among the largest Australian gnaphosoids, it isn’t surprising that they include the earliest described trachycosmids. Although many of these taxa have previously been misplaced in the gnaphosid genus Hemicloea, they closely resemble Rebilus in spinneret and tarsal claw morphology, but can be distinguished from members of that genus by the inclined lip at the anterior edge of the sternum, which is accompanied laterally by a pair of greatly enlarged intercoxal sclerites.