Habrocestum egaeum Metzner, 1999
Description
Male
Prosoma dorsally rusty brown, median white hairy spot. Opisthosoma dorsally black with beige equatorial band. Palp: With black, white and yellow hair tuft on patella, cymbium red-brown with black hairs.
Body length male: 5.4-5.9 mmFemale
Prosoma red-brown, posteriorly lighter. Opisthsoma dorsal sandy, posterior half with T-shaped design. Epigyne with two distinctly separated long-oval grooves.
Body length female: 6.13-7.1 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Metzner 1999)
Habitus
(Metzner 1999)
Habitus, variations, dorsal view
(Schäfer 2020)
Habitus, variations, frontal view
(Schäfer 2020)
Epigyne
(Metzner 1999)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Metzner 1999)
Distribution List
References
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