Parafroneta

Fauna Portal Genus Number: 3483

(after Blest 1979): Small to medium-sized spiders. Carapace without marked sexual dimorphism. Sub-ocular sulci well-developed. Chaetotaxy highly variable. Male pedipalp: typically long and narrow, without marked apical dilation. Pulpal organ much reduced, extremely simple, suprategulum weakly-developed straight or obtuse and curved outwards. Conductor a short, translucent. simple membranous process, often difficult to resolve in the undissected pedipalp. With attachment to the tegulum and the base of the embolus. Embolus a simple sclerite with no distinct radical component. Female epigyne: bursae simple, epigyne with a rudimentary posterior socket, variously developed, not forming part of a distinct scape. Posterior margin ofepigynal cuticle fused to dorsal plate. Exoskeleton not tough or leathery.

In Australia, the genus is only know from Macquarie Island.