Species Cavisternum foxae Baehr, Harvey & Smith, 2010

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cavisternum foxae 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 S75121 ♂, Bang Bang jumpup, Acacia forest [18°31’31"S, 140°39’38"E].
  Paratype(s) QM S83813, same data as holotype.

  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] [25, 26 figs 14, 115-119, Map 4].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Gulf Plains (GUP)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Males of C. foxae resemble those of C. toadshow, with the sternal concavity occupying the whole sternal length and half of the sternal width, and the epigastric scutum not protruding. However, males of C. foxae can be easily separated by the rectangular anterior margin of the patch of clavate setae, which reaches the anterior margin of the sternum, but with a bare median band, and by their ovoid cymbium-bulb complex with a broadly based and corkscrew-shaped embolus. Females can be easily distinguished from all other Cavisternum species by the long, narrow copulatory duct reaching beyond the tracheal groove.

 

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] [26]

 

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