Fact Sheet

Microstigmatidae: unplaced Kiama


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Total length

Large (8–30mm) (Fig. 1).

Distribution

New South Wales (Fig. 2).

Habitat

Temperate rainforest, open eucalyptus forest.

Spinnerets

Four. PLS segments equal or unequal in length; apical segment digitiform.

Cephalothorax

(Fig. 3) Caput of females steeply raised to vertical posteriorly; fovea of females deeply procurved or U-shaped.

Eyes (Fig. 3) eight eyes; group tiny, about 0.3 of headwidth; two rows; rows equal in width or back row wider; not on tubercle.

Chelicerae fangs longitudinal; retromargin without teeth; middle row of teeth distinct; intercheliceral tumescence in male absent; rastellum absent.

Maxillae longer than wide; anterior lobe absent or small, indistinct; serrula absent; cuspules few or absent.

Labium wider than long; cuspules absent.

Sternum with three pairs of sigilla.

Legs

Preening combs on metatarsi absent; tarsi with filiform trichobothria.

Claws three; paired claws with two rows of teeth; third claw dentate; tufts absent.

Scopula in females, only distally on tarsi I, II.

Male Palp

Cymbium aspinose and ascopulate.

Genera included

Kiama.

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