Cavisternum carae, Baehr & Harvey & Smith, 2010

Baehr, Barbara C., Harvey, Mark S. & Smith, Helen M., 2010, The Goblin Spiders of the New Endemic Australian Genus Cavisternum (Araneae: Oonopidae), American Museum Novitates 3684, pp. 1-40 : 20-21

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/667.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C6A064BB-45E2-494A-935D-D7797D6E7BCC

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3F6B7870-B4CE-429E-8EED-6A5D23D49BFB

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:3F6B7870-B4CE-429E-8EED-6A5D23D49BFB

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Cavisternum carae
status

sp. nov.

Cavisternum carae View in CoL , new species

Figures 13 View Figs , 95–97 View Figs , 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) GoogleMaps .

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).

FEMALE: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: This species is recorded only from the type locality, in northwestern Northern Territory (map 2) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Cavisternum

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