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SpiderMAP:   13405
Province:   Northern Cape
Country:   South Africa
Locus:   2924CD
Observer:   Kirsten Anike
Date of record:   2020-06-30
Number of photos:   3
Notes:   Carapace yellow-brown with thin dark stripe down centre, thin black border around raised cephalic region, and 3 black spots on either side near edges. Thin faint white line above chelicera. Chelicera reddish brown and long. Sternum brown with faint dark border. Coxae yellowish brown. Abdomen oval and brown, mottled faintly, with 2 short dark lines anterior centre of dorsum followed by two faint dark patches in column down centre, then two columns of irregular patchy lines down to spinnerets. Ventral abdomen yellowish with faint broad band down centre. Epigyne dark. Legs yellowish reddish brown and banded. Metatarsus and tarsus greyish. 1, 4, 2, 3. Pedipalps like legs but plain, spined, unmodified. Two rows of eyes (4:4). Posterior row slightly procurved. 8mm body length.
Last updated:   2020-07-05 16:07:29
Sp. code:   703490
Species name:   FAMILY Corinnidae
Common name:   Dark sac spiders and ant-imitating sac spiders
Family:   Corinnidae
Record status:   ACCEPTED
Collector's species id:   Possibly one of the Corinnidae
Institution:   ADU-UCT
Record URL:   https://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=SpiderMAP-13405
Links:   • Locus: Summary | Records       • Species: Records | Distribution map
VM-number: 13405 - photo: 1
VM-number: 13405 - photo: 2
VM-number: 13405 - photo: 3

Comments by the Expert Panel on this record:

Comment number:   1
By:   Astri Leroy
Comment:  
Date:   2020-07-05 16:07:29
Species name:   FAMILY Corinnidae -- Dark sac spiders and ant-imitating sac spiders
Species code:   703490

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