Species Cavisternum ledereri Baehr, Harvey & Smith, 2010

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cavisternum ledereri Baehr, B.C., Harvey, M.S. & Smith, H.M. 2010. The Goblin Spiders of the new endemic Australian genus Cavisternum (Araneae: Oonopidae). American Museum Novitates 3684: 1-40 [Date published March 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM S25275 ♂, Thatch Creek (NQ 32) [19°06’00"S, 145°18’00"E].
  Paratype(s) QM S83815.

  Type locality references:

  Baehr, B.C., Harvey, M.S. & Smith, H.M. 2010. The Goblin Spiders of the new endemic Australian genus Cavisternum (Araneae: Oonopidae). American Museum Novitates 3684: 1-40 [Date published March 4] [29,30 figs 18, 131-135, Map 4].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Males of C. ledereri resemble those of C. foxae as both have the sternal concavity occupying the whole sternal length and the epigastric scutum is not protruding. However, males of C. ledereri can be easily separated from all other species by their pear-shaped cymbium-bulb complex with a bifurcate embolus. Females can be easily distinguished from all other Cavisternum species by their dark, broadly oval epigastric area with inverted V-shaped copulatory opening situated between groove and epigastric fold, and with the copulatory duct short, broadly oval and narrowed toward the epigastric fold.

 

Diagnosis References

Baehr, B.C., Harvey, M.S. & Smith, H.M. 2010. The Goblin Spiders of the new endemic Australian genus Cavisternum (Araneae: Oonopidae). American Museum Novitates 3684: 1-40 [Date published March 4] [29]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Oct-2020		07-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020		19-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		07-Jul-2010	ADDED