Do you know something you haven't put on the INFO page?

Just a request Kevin made in the Guide Page Request forum here. Should have mentioned that, sorry.

Thanks, Charley. Hi, J & J, I finally took a look at this epigynum under the microscope and reviewed the drawings in Dondale and Redner's crab spider book. I'll shoot an image sometime later today (European t ime) and double-check the descriptions, etc. To be safe, I'll probably (try to) do a dissection so that we can see the copulatory tubes.

(See also this off-site page -- scroll way down or search for "funestus" -- from Henderson State University. Seems like a reasonably reliable source and specimen is the splitting image, IMO -- not that that will get us home, but it does make me more comfortable.

-Kevin

* I should add that the old image here of the epigynum illustrates the problems with trying to reach too far with a macro lens -- the shapes and shadows are all more or less there, but there are essential details that just cannot be seen. A comparison image from the microscope should be interesting, I think. [Looking back, though, I think that it might have been more a case of me misreading the facts. :-)]

Here is a microscopic image of epigynum: