The Rev. O.P. Cambridge in 1869 in his Descriptions and sketches of some new species of Araneidea, with characters of a new genus described this Zodariid as having a deep red-brown cephalothorax, reflecting beautiful violet and dark green in different lights, and an oval shaped abdomen of a deep black reflecting metallic tints of invisible green, having 5 pale markings with yellowish white spots and oblique lines on the side.
- Female Zillimata scintillans
- Male Zillimata scintillans
- Male Zillimata scintillans
- Ant being mimicked (Rhytidonoptera)
- Male, Neds Corner VIC 3496
- References
Female Zillimata scintillans
Collected by Barbara Baehr at Lake Mungo Bush Blitz, Photo Stephen Mahony
Male Zillimata scintillans
Collected by Barbara Baehr at Lake Mungo Bush Blitz, Photo Stephen Mahony
Male Zillimata scintillans
Collected by Barbara Baehr at Lake Mungo Bush Blitz, Photo Stephen Mahony
Ant being mimicked (Rhytidonoptera)
Collected by Barbara Baehr at Lake Mungo Bush Blitz, Photo Stephen Mahony
Male, Neds Corner VIC 3496
Photo: Barbara Baehr
References
- O. P.- Cambridge 1869 - Descriptions and sketches of some new species of Araneidea, with characters of a new genus by O. P.- Cambridge Annals And Magazine of Natural History 3:52-74 (1869)
