Marvellous Ant-eating Spider Cavasteron exquisitum Baehr & Jocque
Fauna Portal species: 9636
Cavisternum exquisitum male, abdomen dorsal (SAMA
NI992417; 50 km S. of Innaminka, Strezlecki Creek, South Australia)
Image: Baehr & Jocqué (2000; fig. 6)
Fauna Portal Image No. 12351Diagnosis
(after Baehr & Jocque 2000): Males of this species are recognised by the pattern of the cephalothorax with paler patches in between the radiating striae, by the prolateral extension of the palpal tibia with three macrosetae and the short prolateral extension of the DTA.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- South Australia
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