Ablemma Roewer, 1963

Fardiansah, Riko, Duperre, Nadine, Widyastuti, Rahayu, Potapov, Anton, Stefan Scheu, & Harms, Danilo, 2019, Description of four new species of armoured spiders (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia, ZooKeys 820, pp. 95-118 : 95

Genus Ablemma Roewer, 1963

Type species.

Ablemma baso Roewer, 1963

Diagnosis.

The genus Ablemma most resembles the genera Singaporemma Shear, 1978 and Sulaimania Lehtinen, 1981 but it can be distinguished from both genera by the combination of the following characters: 6, 4 or 2 eyes; sternum reticulate (Fig. 2); male carapace without clypeal horn (Figs 3, 4), chelicerae with acute cheliceral apophysis at base of fang (Figs 47-49); heavy right-angled embolus (Figs 7, 14, 27); female with small posterolateral corner of preanal scutum (Fig. 19).

Compostion.

Twenty-five species were known before the present publication, eight of which are only known from one sex ( World Spider Catalog 2018).

Distribution.

Borneo (7 species), Caroline Islands (1), China (1), Indonesia, Sumatra (3), Indonesia, Sulawesi (1), Japan (1), Malaysia (2), New Guinea (5), Philippines (2), Singapore (1), Solomon Island (1) and Thailand (1).