The Goblin Spiders of the New Endemic Australian Genus Cavisternum (Araneae: Oonopidae)
Author
Baehr, Barbara C.
Author
Harvey, Mark S.
Author
Smith, Helen M.
text
American Museum Novitates
2010
2010-03-04
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/667.1
journal article
10.1206/667.1
0003-0082
5358760
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Cavisternum carae
,
new species
Figures 13
,
95–97
, map 2
TYPE:
AUSTRALIA
:
Northern Territory
:
Male
holotype
from
Douglas Daly
,
13
°
50
9
S
,
131
°
11
9
E
(
Oct. 1997
,
T.B. Churchill
; PBI_OON 00005434), deposited in WAM (T82256)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of Cara Churchill, the daughter of Tracey Churchill who was the collector of the
holotype
and many other interesting oonopid spiders.
DIAGNOSIS: Males of
C. carae
resemble those of
C. bertmaini
with the sternal concavity occupying about half the sternal length (fig. 13) and the epigastric scutum strongly protruding. Males of
C. carae
can be separat- ed by their broad, medially bent embolus with a tiny retrobasal spike (fig. 97).
MALE: Total length 1.10. Carapace 0.49 long, 0.37 wide; abdomen 0.61 long, 0.32 wide. Carapace, sternum, mouthparts, and abdominal scutae pale orange, legs yellow. Sternum longer than wide, concavity small with dropshaped field of clavate setae, covering about
M
of sternum width and
K
of sternum length at posterior median part of sternum (fig. 13). Cheliceral fangs elongated, tips bent posteromedially forming V shape, tip widened distally (fig. 13). Abdomen cylindrical, epigastric scutum strongly protruding. Cymbiumbulb complex square with a broad, medially bent embolus with a tiny retrobasal spike (figs. 95–97).
Figs. 95–97.
Cavisternum carae
,
new species
, male palp (PBI_OON 05434).
95.
Prolateral view.
96.
Retrolateral view.
97.
Dorsal view.
FEMALE: Unknown.
DISTRIBUTION: This species is recorded only from the
type
locality, in northwestern
Northern Territory
(map 2)
.