Brown Flat Ground Spider Trachytrema castaneum Simon, 1909
Fauna Portal species: 9592
Trachytrema castaneum male, dorsal (HBI N28701-1; George Block, WNW. of Mt Saddleback, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 9504Diagnosis
(after Platnick 2002): Males can be recognized by the short median apophysis, females by the narrow, deeply excavated, rectangular epigynal atrium.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2002): A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, and Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 271: 1 - 243