Male palp with tapering lamella in distal third, pointed distally. Epigyne with strongly developed epigynal plates, enclosing scapus collar-like, therefore also visible from ventral, posterior part of scapus almost 4 times as wide as long. Prosoma yellow-brown, with or without dorsal spot. Legs clay-yellow. Opisthosoma grey-white to black.
Body length male: 2-2.3 mmin litter layer and small caves
Troglophile species (Mammola et al. 2018b)
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