Species Tropasteron cooki Baehr, 2003
- Tropasteron cooki Baehr, B. 2003. Tropasteron gen. nov. of the Asteron-complex (Araneae: Zodariidae) from tropical Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 49: 29-64 [37].
Type data:
Holotype QM S57007 ♂, QLD: North Bell Peak, Malbon Thompson Ra. [17.07'S, 145.53'E].
Paratype(s) QM, further paratypes males and females in QM see Baehr (2003) for details.Type locality references:
Baehr, B. 2003. Tropasteron gen. nov. of the Asteron-complex (Araneae: Zodariidae) from tropical Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 49: 29-64 [37, 38, figs 5C, 8A-F, 31B].
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)
Distribution References
Diagnosis
T. cooki is similar to T. yeatesi but differs from all other species by abdomen without frontal spots and with 4 pairs of white patches on top. Differs from T. yeatesi in only 2 spots in front of the spinnerets. Male palp with short spine (LTA), about as wide as long.
Diagnosis References
Baehr, B. 2003. Tropasteron gen. nov. of the Asteron-complex (Araneae: Zodariidae) from tropical Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 49: 29-64 [38]
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