Cheiracanthium falcatum
| Cheiracanthium falcatum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Cheiracanthiidae |
| Genus: | Cheiracanthium |
| Species: | C. falcatum
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| Binomial name | |
| Cheiracanthium falcatum Chen, Huang, Chen et Wang, 2006
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Cheiracanthium falcatum, commonly known in Mandarin Chinese as "長腿紅螯蛛" or Sickle-shaped red chelate spider, is a species of yellow sac spider endemic to Taiwan. [1]
Description
[edit]C. falcatum are yellowish brown in color, with a long, slender body and brown maxilla and chelicerae. [1] They lack a thoracic furrow. They are distinguished from similar species by a posterior epigyneal depression, copulatory duct coils in three spirals leading downward to the spermatheca in the female vulva, and a finger-like tibial apophysis and long sickle-shaped cymbial spur in the pedipalps of males. They most resemble C. ningmingense but may be distinguished by their thicker tibial apophysis in the male palpus.
Distribution
[edit]C. falcatum are endemic to Taiwan and widely distributed at elevations between 200m and 800m.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Chen, Shyh-hwang; Huang, Wen-Jean (May 2012). The Spider Fauna of Taiwan. National Taiwan Normal University. p. 13-15. ISBN 9789577526687.