South-western Curtain-web Spider Cethegus fugax (Simon, 1908)
Fauna Portal species: 10133
Diagnosis
(after Raven 1984): Medium-sized spiders, carapace length 4.56 - 7.80, mean 6.32 + 0.39. Carapace with short, procurved fovea. All sigilla oval small. Ventral abdomen with brown spots on pale book-lung covers. Females with 2 vermiform spermathecae, each sometimes with indistinct lobe. Males with very long embolus; tibiae and metatarsi I without spines.
Sequenced specimens here associated with C. fugax were collected close to the lectotype locallity.
Status
- native
Linnean Lectotype(s)
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(1984): Systematics of the Australian curtain-web Spiders (Ischnothelinae: Dipluridae: Chelicerata). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplement Series. 93: 1 - 102