Species Pentasteron securifer Baehr & Jocqué, 2001
- Pentasteron securifer Baehr, B. & Jocqué, R. 2001. Revisions of genera in the Asteron-complex (Araneae: Zodariidae): new genera Pentasteron, Phenasteron, Leptasteron and Subasteron. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46: 359-385 [365].
Type data:
Holotype WAM 90/272 ♂, Western Australia: John Forrest National Park [31°52'S, 116°04'E].
Paratype(s) WAM 99/2378-2379 2♀, Western Australia, Jarrahdale Mine site [32°13'S 116°04'E].Type locality references:
Baehr, B. & Jocqué, R. 2001. Revisions of genera in the Asteron-complex (Araneae: Zodariidae): new genera Pentasteron, Phenasteron, Leptasteron and Subasteron. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46: 359-385 [365, 366, figs 5A,B, 7A,B, 15].
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)
Distribution References
Diagnosis
males of this species are recognised by the very typical palp with very large, H-shaped VTA of which the retrolateral distal part has the shape of an axe; females have an epigyne with a fairly deep roughly diamond-shaped central depression, clearly delimited in front.
Diagnosis References
Baehr, B. & Jocqué, R. 2001. Revisions of genera in the Asteron-complex (Araneae: Zodariidae): new genera Pentasteron, Phenasteron, Leptasteron and Subasteron. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46: 359-385 [365]
History of changes
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