Spined Ant-eating Spider Cavasteron crassicalcar Baehr & Jocqué, 2000
Fauna Portal species: 9635
Cavisternum crassicalcar male, abdomen dorsal (WAM 90/219; Buningonia Spring, Western Australia)
Image: Baehr & Jocqué (2000; fig. 5)
Fauna Portal Image No. 12336Diagnosis
(after Baehr & Jocqué 2000): Males of this species are recognised by the large lobate flange on the palpal cymbium and the rounded internal prong on the retrolateral tip of the dorsal tegular apophysis which is conical in related species. The female is to be identified by the shape of the central membranous area on the epigyne.
Status
- native
Australia
- South Australia
- Western Australia
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