Shae's Goblin Spider Opopaea callani Baehr & Harvey, 2013
Fauna Portal species: 248
Opopaea callani male, dorsal (WAM T89193; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: Baehr et al. (2013; fig. 110A)
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(after Baehr et al. 2013): Males resemble those of O. rixi in general body shape, having scuto-pedicel area less than diameter of pedicel, paired scutal ridges not connected at middle and postepigastric scutum with concavity between lateral apodemes, but can be distinguished by the long and narrow bulbal tip, retrolaterally bulging at height of narrow ‘fenestra’.
Within the context of the oonopid fauna of Barrow Island, O. callani is most similar to O. johannae and O. harmsi due to the elongated abdomen, but O. callani is much more shiny than those and the sternum protrudes more posteriorly.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
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Publications
(2013): The goblin spider genus Opopaea in Australia and the Pacific islands (Araneae: Oonopidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature. 58: 107 - 338