Rough Cytaea Cytaea aspera (Karsch, 1878)
Fauna Portal species: 14882
Cytaea aspera male, dorsal (HBI N34652-3; Mundaring Weir, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2026)
Fauna Portal Image No. 14299Diagnosis
(after Trębicki et al. 2021): Cytaea aspera is grater in size than C. alburna, covered with metallic shimmering scales and is dull in colour vs. red, in C. alburna. Palpal tibia twice longer than in C. alburna, embolus shorter by 0.5 loop length, spermatecae differ by course of ducts.
Cytaea aspera is much darker and more uniformly coloured than Cytaea FP-284. The male pedipalp cymbium is characteristically truncated apically.
The male from Mundaring (Western Australia) illustrated here is tentatively referred to C. aspera (a species described from eastern Australia) based on the illustrations published of the latter by Trębicki et al. (2021), although we recognise slight morphological differences, e.g. in the origin of the embolus.
Status
- native
Linnean Type
Holotype male, "N.S.W. (= New South Wales) - Daemel (= collector); Zoological Museum Berlin ZMB 1684.
Australia
- New South Wales
- Western Australia
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Publications
(2021): Redescription of type species of the genus Cytaea Keyserling, 1882 (Araneae: Salticidae) – an integrative approach. The European Zoological Journal. 2021: 933 - 947WEB