Foliated Ant-eating spider Minasteron perfoliatum Baehr & Jocqué, 2000
Fauna Portal species: 9757
Diagnosis
(after Baehr & Jocqué, 2000): The species is very similar to C. minusculum but is recognised by the dark margin of the carapace, the clypeus with two dark lateral area interconnected in the middle, the dark spot in front on the chelicerae, the peculiar dark abdominal pattern. Males are further recognized by the question-mark-shaped area enclosed by the sperm duct in the tegulum which is larger than in M. tangens but as large as in M. minusculum and the RE more slender than in the other species. The main difference with M. minusculum is in the shape of the tip of the DTA which has an angular internal margin. The female is identified by details of the epigyne in which the frontal margin of the oval copulatory opening is ill-defined.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Northern Territory
- South 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