Desert Ant-eating Spider Cavasteron agelenoides Baehr & Jocque, 2000
Fauna Portal species: 9633
Cavisternum agelenoides male, abdomen dorsal (QM S3679; Lake Muncoonie, Queensland)
Image: Baehr & Jocqué (2000; fig. 8)
Fauna Portal Image No. 12341Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Queensland
Distribution
(after Baehr & Jocque 2000): Males and females of this species are recognised by the peculiar spination, all tibiae having the same formula; males are further characterised by the large, rounded frontal appendage FA of the embolar base in the palp.
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2000): Revisions of genera in the Asteron-complex (Araneae: Zodariidae). The new genera Cavasteron and Minasteron. Records of the Western Australian Museum. 20: 1 - 30WEB