Sason Simon, 1887

Schwendinger, Peter J., 2003, Two New Species Of The Arboreal Trapdoor Spider Genus Sason (Araneae: Barychelidae) From Southeast Asia, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (2), pp. 197-207 : 197-198

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4619377

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4619281

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scientific name

Sason Simon, 1887
status

 

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Diagnosis. – Small barychelid spiders, characterised by: carapace, opisthosoma and legs with pronounced colour pattern; eye tubercle very low or absent; clypeus indistinct; labium distally with transvers row of short stout (present in all females and in males of some species) and/or filiform cuspules (in males of other species); PLS with conical apical segment; paired tarsal claws with few denticles in one row or edentate (in males of some species); cymbium short, undivided; palpal claw tufts of females weak or absent.

For synonymy and detailed description, see Raven (1986: 49; 1994: 700).

Raven, R. J., 1986. A revision of the spider genus Sason Simon (Sasoninae, Barychelidae, Mygalomorphae) and its historical biogeopgraphy. Journal of Arachnology, 14: 47 - 70.

Raven, R. J., 1994. Mygalomorph spiders of the Barychelidae in Australia and the Western Pacific. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 35 (2): 291 - 706.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Barychelidae