The North Queensland Ohilimia is a mostly black, attentuated ant-like spider with brilliant red front legs. The genus can be recognised by having a flattened, oval cephalothorax, eyes on large protuberances and first legs longest and distinctly more robust than the others, held in mantid-like manner. There is a heavy fringe of stiff flattened setae on the underneath of the tibiae with 7-9 pairs of ventral spines. Metatarsi I is thin, always with 3 pairs of ventral spines, short in males and long in females. Males have distinctive shiny abdominal scuta. According to Davies and Żabka (1989), species of Ohilimia mimic flies in reverse. Their first elongate legs are held in the manner reminiscent of flies' wings and they move backwards. In O scutellata the cephalothorax is sparsely covered with short, fine hairs. The male has 7 pairs of spines on the tarsi and 3 pairs of spines on the metatarsi. The female's abdomen is yellowish-grey, with a brown patch in the anterior part and whitish fine hairs forming not very distinctive transverse belts. The female has 8 or 9 spines on the tarsi and 3 pairs of spines on the metatarsi. ♀ 7mm ♂ 5mm
- Female adult AUS-182-IRM Daintree from above
- Female adult AUS-182-IRM from above, Daintree
- Female adult AUS-182-IRM Leg I
- Female adult AUS-182-IRM Leg 1 tibia and metatarsus spines and hairs
- Female adult AUS-182-IRM teeth
- Female adult AUS-182-IRM epigyne
- Juvenile AUS-109-IRM Daintree
- Juvenile AUS-109-IRM Daintree
- References
Female adult AUS-182-IRM Daintree from above
Female adult AUS-182-IRM from above, Daintree
Female adult AUS-182-IRM Leg I
Female adult AUS-182-IRM Leg 1 tibia and metatarsus spines and hairs
Female adult AUS-182-IRM teeth
Female adult AUS-182-IRM epigyne
Juvenile AUS-109-IRM Daintree
Juvenile AUS-109-IRM Daintree
Juvenile AUS-104-IRM Daintree
References
- Ohilimia - Gardzińska J. 2006: A revision of the spider genus Ohilimia Strand, 1911 (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici 56(2): 375-385.
- Chalcolecta - Gardzińska J., Żabka M. 2005: A revision of the spider genus Chalcolecta Simon, 1884 (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, 55(3): 437-448.
- Diolenius - Gardzińska J., Żabka M. 2006: A revision of the spider genus Diolenius Thorell, 1870 (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici 56(2): 387-433