Shoreline Heckle-mesh Weaver Paratheuma australis Beatty & Berry, 1989
Fauna Portal species: 7074
Paratheuma australis male, pedipalp ventral (Viti Levu, Fiji)
Image: Beatty & Berry (1989; fig. 9)
Fauna Portal Image No. 4580Diagnosis
(after Beatty & Berry 1989): Male: Pedipalp with slender erect tibial apophysis of medium length , as in P. insulana and P. rangiroa. Distinguished from P. insulana by its broader cymbium and pedipalp bulb, from P. rangiroa by the more anteriorly directed tibia l apophysis and the shape of the conductor tip. Female: With narrow oblique epigynal depressions, as in P. insulana and P. rangiroa. Distinguished from P. insulana by a reduction of the anterolateral hoods of the epigynal depressions.
Paratheuma australis is currently the only described species of Paratheuma in Australia.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Queensland
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(1989): Four new species of Paratheuma (Araneae, Desidae) from the Pacific. Journal of Arachnology. 16: 339 - 347