Small Ant-eating Spiders

Minasteron Baehr & Jocqué, 2000

Type species: Minasteron minusculum Baehr & Jocqué, 2000

Fauna Portal Genus Number: 689

(after Baehr & Jocqué 2000): Minasteron shares some important diagnostic characters with Cavasteron: a large, terminal palpal claw in both sexes and several characters on the male pedipalp: the dorsolateral bifid apophysis, the ventrolateral one which is connected by a dorsolaterally flattened ridge to the body of the tibia and the cymbium with a proximal, retrolateral lobe. Minasteron differs from Cavasteron by the higher profile of the carapace, the much smaller anterior eyes, the long median ocular quadrangle, the greater number of spines on the anterior tibiae, the posterior tarsal claws which are almost straight and the looped palpal sperm duct.