Margaret's Ant-eating Spider Cavasteron margaretae
Fauna Portal species: 9640
Diagnosis
(after Baehr & Jocqué 2000): Males of this species are recognised by deeply indented dorsolateral tibial apophysis with the internal prong long and sharp, the external one truncated; the tooth on the internal lamina of the DTA is ridge-shaped and not conical.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western 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