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
![Zillimata scintillans and an ant (Rhytidonoptera)](../_dbase_upl/Zillimata-scintillans_Zodariidae_Female_29082017_Lake-Mungo-Bush-Blitz_Stephen-Mahony_Collected-Barbara-Baehr_010.jpg)
Male Zillimata scintillans
![Zillimata scintillans and an ant (Rhytidonoptera)](../_dbase_upl/Zillimata-scintillans_Zodariidae_Male_29082017_Lake-Mungo-Bush-Blitz_Stephen-Mahony_Collected-Barbara-Baehr_012.jpg)
Male Zillimata scintillans
![Zillimata scintillans and an ant (Rhytidonoptera)](../_dbase_upl/Zillimata-scintillans_Zodariidae_Male_29082017_Lake-Mungo-Bush-Blitz_Stephen-Mahony_Collected-Barbara-Baehr_041.jpg)
Ant being mimicked (Rhytidonoptera)
![Zillimata scintillans and an ant (Rhytidonoptera)](../_dbase_upl/Green-headed-Ant_30082017_Lake-Mungo-Bush-Blitz_003.jpg)
Male, Neds Corner VIC 3496
![Zillimata scintillans](../_dbase_upl/Zillimata_scintillansmaleNedsCornercomp.jpg)
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)