Arid Prowling Spiders

Xeromiturga Raven, 2023

Type species: Xeromiturga gumbardo Raven, 2023

Fauna Portal Genus Number: 3772

(after Raven et al. 2023): Unlike Miturga, the apical segment of the posterior lateral spinnerets is conical, not digitiform, as is the case on a number of species placed in Miturga. The genus further differs from Miturga in the scopula absent on tibiae and very weak on tarsi and confined to the apex of metatarsi I and II, in the distinctly recurved eye rows, with the anterior lateral eyes smaller than anterior median eyes. Differs from Miturgopelma in the presence of a patellar apophysis on the male pedipalp, long embolus, and retrolateral groove on the cymbium. Males have basal or central embolus origin, with broad embolus base directed retrolaterally to basally, with thin embolus for full prolateral (>180°) diameter of bulb; unlike Knotodo. The median apophysis is not slender and in the same general direction or orientation as the embolus origin. The retrolateral tibial apophysis consists of two distal, trianguloid plates adjacent to the base of cymbium, and each joined by an unsclerotised zone. Males and females with anterior median eyes twice the diameter of the posterior median eyes.