Long Spinneret Ground Spider Cryptoerithus occultus Rainbow, 1915
Fauna Portal species: 274
Cryptoerithus occultus male, dorsal (HBI N24015-1; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2023)
Fauna Portal Image No. 5683Diagnosis
(after Platnick & Baehr 2006): Cryptoerithus occultus may be the western sister species of C. lawlessi; males differ in having a longer, narrower median apophysis, females in lacking pronounced posterior epigynal margins and having larger anterior epigynal ducts.
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2006): A revision of the Australian ground spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Gnaphosoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 298: 1 - 287