Mondrain Island Cheiracanthium Cheiracanthium mondrainense Main, 1954
Fauna Portal species: 6818
Cheiracanthium mondrainense female, epigyne ventral (WAM 55/4983)
Image: Main (1954; text figure without number)
Fauna Portal Image No. 3713Diagnosis
(after Main 1954): The epigynum agrees with none of the epigynes figured for Australian species. There is no figure of C. nervosum Simon, but it is described as being small, simple, anteriorly truncated, posteriorly attenuated and impressed. Such a description without a figure is inadequate for the identification of a specimen. Simon does mention that the epigynum is like that of C. brevicalcaratum [currently listed in Eutittha] but simpler. A comparison with Koch's figure of the epigynum of C. brevicalcaratun in Koch (1871-1883) shows no similarity of structure.
Of species described from male specimens only, the present species differs in the following ways: (1) from C. pennuliferum Simon (Western Australia) which has longitudinal dorsal bands on the carapace and slightly annulated femurs and tibiae; (2) from C. gracile Koch (Queensland) which lacks the longitudinal dorsal band on the carapace; (3) from C. tenue Koch (Queensland) which has no scapula on the legs.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
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Publications
(1954): Spiders and Opiliones. In: The Archipelago of the Recherche. Australian Geographic Society Reports. 1: 37 - 53