Species Holasteron perth Baehr, 2004

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• Holasteron perth Baehr, B.C. 2004. Revision of the new Australian genus Holasteron (Araneae: Zodariidae): taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 49: 495-519 [512].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM WAM 94/64 ♂, Western Australia: m, Talbot Road Reserve, site TR1 [31°52’S, 116°03’E].
  Paratype(s) WAM, further paratypes males and females in WAM, SAMA see Baehr 2004 for details.

  Type locality references:

  Baehr, B.C. 2004. Revision of the new Australian genus Holasteron (Araneae: Zodariidae): taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 49: 495-519 [512, 513 figs 2, 3D, 17, 22].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Esperance Plains (ESP), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Diagnosis

Males resembles those of H. flinders in having the complex 3-dimensional structure of the male palp but can be distinguished by the dark brown abdomen with 3 pairs of white spots on top and 2–3 spots in front of the spinnerets and in females by the inverted flask-shaped CO, by the horizontal directed u-shaped sclerotised tubes and by the extremely elongate CD, coiled about 12 times.

Diagnosis References

Baehr, B.C. 2004. Revision of the new Australian genus Holasteron (Araneae: Zodariidae): taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 49: 495-519 [513]

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