Ant-eating Spiders

Cavasteron Baehr & Jocqué, 2000

Type species: Cavasteron crassicalcar Baehr & Jocqué, 2000

Fauna Portal Genus Number: 219

(after Baehr & Jocqué 2000): Representatives of Cavasteron are recognised by the presence of a large, terminal palpal claw in both sexes. Further diagnostic characters shared with Minasteron are from the male pedipalp: the dorsolateral apophysis is bifid, the ventrolateral one is connected by a dorsolaterally flattened ridge to the body of the tibia; the cymbium has a proximal, retrolateral lobe. Cavasteron differs from Minasteron by the lower profile of the carapace, the subequal eyes, the virtually square median ocular quadrangle, the fewer spines on the anterior tibiae, the posterior tarsal claws which are curved normally and the S-shaped palpal sperm duct.