Small-spurred Ant-eating Spider Cavasteron tenuicalcar Baehr & Jocqué, 2000
Fauna Portal species: 358
Cavasteron tenuicalcar male, dorsal (HBI N3663-25; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 9230Diagnosis
(after Baehr & Jocqué 2000): Males of C. tenuicalcar are recognised by the poorly developed terminal cymbial spine on the cymbium and the frontal appendage on the embolar base without projection.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2000): Revisions of genera in the Asteron-complex (Araneae: Zodariidae). The new genera Cavasteron and Minasteron. Records of the Western Australian Museum. 20: 1 - 30WEB