Three-clawed Ant-eating Spider Cavasteron triunguis Baehr & Jocqué, 2000
Fauna Portal species: 9643
Diagnosis
(after Baehr & Jocqué, 2000): Males of this species are recognised by the peculiar abdominal pattern, the wide dorsolateral tibial apophysis with shallow protrusion and the cymbial modification accomodating the internal prong of the dorsolateral tibial apophysis. The female is to be identified by the oval shape of the central membranous copulatory opening of the epigyne.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Queensland
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