Anomalosa

Fauna Portal Genus Number: 2785

(after Framenau 2006): Within the Venoniinae (sensu Lehtinen & Hippa 1979), Anomalosa has somatic and genitalic characters similar to Venonia. It differs from Venonia in its colouration, as the dorsal shield of the prosoma and the opisthosoma have light median bands, in particular distinct in males, whereas the dorsal shield of the prosoma and the opisthosoma of Venonia are of uniform colouration with a posterodorsal white spot above the spinnerets. Pedipalp morphology shows distinct differences between Anomalosa and Venonia. The cymbium is not truncated apico-retrolaterally as in Venonia and the prolateral tegular lobe is much larger than the tegular apophysis in Anomalosa (smaller than the tegular apophysis in Venonia). Anomalosa clearly differs from Anomalomma, where A. kochi was initially placed, as Anomalomma has short spinnerets (Simon in Hasselt 1890: 199: “Mammillae brevissimae, ut in Cybeo L. Koch.”). The type material of the type species of the genus, A. lycosinum Simon, 1890, appears to be lost (Lehtinen & Hippa 1983).