Brush-footed Trapdoor Spider Synothele karara Raven, 1994
Fauna Portal species: 10109
Diagnosis
(after Raven 1994): Males of Synothele karara differ from those of S. howi in that the keel on the palpal bulb is larger and quite distinct at its origin and the rastellum is weaker, and from S. koonalda in the second large keel on the bulb.
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(1994): Mygalomorph spiders of the Barychelidae in Australia and the western Pacific. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 35: 291 - 706