Mjoeberg's Ant-eating Spider Cavasteron mjoebergi Baehr & Jocqué, 2000
Fauna Portal species: 9642
Diagnosis
(after Baehr & Jocqué, 2000): Males of this species are recognised by the large anterior median eyes, the simple abdominal pattern of three white spots on a dark background, the short prongs on the dorsolateral tibial apophysis and the well developed, short, rounded frontal appendage of the embolar base.
Status
- native
Linnean Type
Holotype male, "N.W. Australia", 12 October 1910, Y. Mjöberg (Natural History Museum Stockholm) (Baehr & Jocqué, 2000)
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