Subterranean Armoured Spider Tetrablemma alaus Burger, Harvey & Stevens, 2010
Fauna Portal species: 9208
Tetrablemma alaus male holotype, dorsal (WAM T91751)
Image: Burger et al. (2010; Fig. 1)
Fauna Portal Image No. 779Diagnosis
(after Burger et al. 2010): Tetrablemma alaus is easily distinguished from all other species of Tetrablemmidae (except for Bacillema leclerci fromThailand) by the complete lack of eyes or eye-spots. It differs from B. leclerci by the much shorter legs.
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
Publications
(2010): A new species of blind subterranean Tetrablemma (Araneae: Tetrablemmidae) from Australia. Journal of Arachnology. 38: 146 - 149