Broad Spiny-legged Trapdoor Spider Eucyrtops latior (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877)
Fauna Portal species: 10142
Eucyrtops latior male, dorsal (HBI N38272-1; Hovea, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2026)
Fauna Portal Image No. 13940Diagnosis
(after Rix et al. 2017): Eucyrtops latior can be distinguished from the only other described species of Eucyrtops, E. eremaeus, by the presence of a trapezoidal eye group and dark body coloration. However, similar undescribed congeners are known from other areas, and males of this species can be distinguished from these taxa by the combined presence of a relatively long, thin retrolateral tibial apophysis, which is sparsely setose and provided with relatively few spinules, by the relatively widely spaced anterior lateral eyes, and by the shape and proportions of the eye group.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2017): The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae: Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level. Invertebrate Systematics. 31: 566 - 634