Species Origanates rostratus

Classification · Identification

Dwarf Spider - Origanates rostratus - male

Dwarf Spider - Origanates rostratus - female

Ventral view of BG:371791 - Origanates rostratus - female

Epigynum - Origanates rostratus - female

Dorsal view (BG:371686) - Origanates rostratus - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynes )

Family Linyphiidae (Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders)

Subfamily Erigoninae (Dwarf Spiders)

Genus Origanates

Species rostratus (Origanates rostratus)

Identification

One identifying character: the large oval cephalic pits just behind the posterior lateral eyes (Kaston, 1948).

The male has a very distinctive raised cephalic lobe (fig. 35.152 on page 138 of SONA, for those who have it). SONA describes it as terminating in a "rather sharp, forward-pointing cone". Dorsally it looks like a beak; from the side more like a small rodent head rising up out of the carapace.

Contributed by tom murray on 27 June, 2010 - 4:22pm
Additional contributions by pfeiffer
Last updated 24 October, 2010 - 3:13pm

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