Body length males 3.2mm interesting for a number of features: small size, habitus and behaviour very scorpion like, extreme flatness, bulging femurs leg I, extremely strong-looking "crone-finger" fangs, with bumps and scoops, rather like Ergane cognata, or Tara anomala two slender and pointy apophysis protruberances, one dark, one light, stout pairs of ventral spines tibia and metatarsus, white egg-like shapes in base of palp which is otherwise fairly simple and not greatly unlike Tara anomala, short dark curved embolus. As for teeth, apparently fissident. Val Davies and Marek Zabka remarked that there were some undescribed females and males of a small, flat spider, usually shaken from foliage (as these on this page were) with a similar male palp to that of Tara anomala but without such elongate coxa and trochanter (as is also the case here).
- Male adult 11808MottCk from above
- Male adult 11808MottCk from above
- Male adult 11808MottCk side view
- Male adult 11808MottCk from above closeup
- Male adult 11808MottCk facing
- Male adult 11808MottCk from below shopwing fangs
- Male adult 11808MottCk facing showing fangs
- Male adult 11808MottCk from below
- Male adult 11808MottCk palp showing egg shapes and apophysis
- Male adult 11808MottCk palp from other side
- Male adult 11808MottCk palp side on
- Male 9810@Lochinvar from above
- Male 9810@Lochinvar facing
- Male 9810@Lochinvar palp facing (ventral)
- Male 9810@Lochinvar palp outside (dorsal)
- Male 9810@Lochinvar palp outside (dorsal) apophysis
- Male 9810@Lochinvar palp underneath (ventral)
- Female from above
- Female from below, epigynum visible
- Female Myrtle Creek, NSW from above
Male adult 11808MottCk from above
Male adult 11808MottCk from above
Male adult 11808MottCk side view
Male adult 11808MottCk from above closeup
Male adult 11808MottCk facing
Male adult 11808MottCk from below shopwing fangs
Male adult 11808MottCk facing showing fangs
Male adult 11808MottCk from below
Male adult 11808MottCk palp showing egg shapes and apophysis
Male adult 11808MottCk palp from other side
Male adult 11808MottCk palp side on
Male 9810@Lochinvar from above
Male 9810@Lochinvar facing
Male 9810@Lochinvar palp facing (ventral)
Male 9810@Lochinvar palp outside (dorsal)
Male 9810@Lochinvar palp outside (dorsal) apophysis
Male 9810@Lochinvar palp underneath (ventral)
Female from above
This very small Salticid is very flat in the nature of the flat jumping spiders, Holoplatys species. The abdomen is deflated in death, but the spider was found this way, or very close to it, so this older female may have died of natural causes. Body length nearly 2mm. It was collected in Jevons Street Park, Enoggera catchment.
Female from below, epigynum visible
Female Myrtle Creek, NSW from above
