A distinctive, medium-sized, Opisthoncus in Far North Queensland The male has very large jaws with large curved teeth and long fangs. Pedipalps long and slender with small palpal organs. Orange hairs circling the anterior median (front middle) eyes. A thin white moustache on the clypeus (face below eyes). The caput (top of the cephalothorax) mid-brown with a black area in the eye quadrangle and a transverse white band in the front part. Strong legs with transparent femurs , leg I especially powerful and darker coloured with some white hairs on the patella and tibia. The female similar but without the huge jaws. ♀ 4.8mm ♂ 6mm
Male from above NQ GJA-5874-m-B
Photo: Dr Greg Anderson
Male facing NQ GJA-5874-m-A
Photo: Dr Greg Anderson
Female AUS 2082
Photo: Iain R. Macaulay
Female diagnostic features
Photo: Robert Whyte
