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 waldockae
,
new species
Figures 25
,
171–173
, map 1
TYPE:
AUSTRALIA
:
Western Australia
:
Male
holotype
from
Drysdale River National Park
,
N of Larryoo
,
14
°
51
9
S
,
126
°
49
9
E
(
12 June 1992
;
M.S. Harvey
,
J.M. Waldock
) (PBI_OON 00005444), deposited in WAM (T78181).
Paratype
:
1 male
from
Drysdale River National Park
,
N of Larryoo
,
14
°
51
9
S
,
126
°
49
9
E
,
12 June 1992
,
M.S. Harvey
,
J.M. Waldock
(PBI_OON 00005442) (WAM T78182)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of Julianne Waldock from the Western Australian Museum, who collect- ed the
holotype
.
DIAGNOSIS: Males of
C. waldockae
resemble those of
C. bertmaini
, with both possessing long cheliceral fangs positioned in a V shape and in the general shape of the palp.
Cavisternum waldockae
differs in having a longer, oval-shaped sternal concavity, which occupies
O
of the sternum (fig. 25).
MALE: Total length 1.15. Carapace 0.56 long, 0.41 wide; abdomen 0.59 long, 0.35 wide. Carapace, sternum, mouthparts, and abdominal scutae pale orange, legs yellow. Sternum as long as wide, with oval field of clavate setae, covering about half of sternum width (fig. 25). Cheliceral fangs directed posteriorly forming a V shape, elongated, about
O
of paturon long, tips distally widened. Abdomen ovoid, epigastric scutum slightly protruding. Cymbium-bulb complex ovoid, bearing a long, medially bent embolus with a biarticulate basal apophysis (figs. 171–173).
FEMALE: Unknown.
DISTRIBUTION: This species is only known from a single location in the Drysdale River National Park, in northeastern
Western Australia
(map 1).
Figs. 171–173.
Cavisternum waldockae
,
new species
, male palp (PBI_OON 05444).
171.
Prolateral view.
172.
Retrolateral view.
173.
Dorsal view.