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Cavisternum barthorum Baehr & Harvey & Smith 2010, new species

Description

Cavisternum barthorum, new species Figures 11, 87–89, map 2

TYPE: AUSTRALIA: Queensland : Male holotype from 23 km ESE of Cloncurry near Bishop Creek, 20 ° 47 9 05 0 S, 140 ° 42 9 49 0 E, 210 m (29 June–9 Sep. 2006, R. Raven, B. Baehr, A. Amey) (PBI_OON 00006073), deposited in QM (S75110).

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of Heidemarie Barth and her family.

DIAGNOSIS: Males of C. barthorum resemble those of C. foxae, with the sternal concavity occupying the whole sternal length (fig. 11) and the epigastric scutum not protruding. However, males of C. barthorum can be easily separated by the rounded anterior margin of the clavate field (fig. 11) and the ovoid cymbium-bulb complex, with a smoothly, medially bent, corkscrew-shaped embolus (figs. 87–89).

MALE: Total length 1.08. Carapace 0.49 long, 0.37 wide; abdomen 0.59 long, 0.25 wide. Carapace, sternum, mouthparts, and abdominal scutae pale orange, legs yellow. Sternum longer than wide, with oval field of clavate setae reaching anterior margin, covering about 4 = 5 of sternum length and about K of sternum width, anterior margin with rounded edges, with bare median band (fig. 11). Cheliceral fang elongated, fangs extremely long, thin, bent, and crossed (fig. 11). Abdomen ovoid, epigastric scutum not protruding. Cymbiumbulb complex ovoid with a broadly based and corkscrew-shaped embolus (figs. 87–89).

FEMALE: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: This species is found only at the type locality, in western Queensland (map 2).

Notes

Published as part of Baehr, Barbara C., Harvey, Mark S. & Smith, Helen M., 2010, The Goblin Spiders of the New Endemic Australian Genus Cavisternum (Araneae: Oonopidae), pp. 1-40 in American Museum Novitates 3684 on page 18, DOI: 10.1206/667.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5358760

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Biodiversity

Event date
2006-06-29
Verbatim event date
2006-06-29/09-09
Scientific name authorship
Baehr & Harvey & Smith
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Oonopidae
Genus
Cavisternum
Species
barthorum
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Cavisternum barthorum Baehr, Harvey & Smith, 2010