Description
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Small (1.2–1.6), six eyes compact in a group, male carapace usually with cephalic tubercle (present or absent in female). Male leg I robust, with tubercles at tibia and metatarsus. Cheliceral horn present (absent in female), much longer than in Brignoliella Shear, 1978 or Shearella Lehtinen, 1981, but shorter than in Tetrablemma O. P.-Cambridge, 1873 and Gunasekara Lehtinen, 1981. Abdomen oval, lateral scuta II–IV wide in both sexes.
Bulb long pyriform, embolus simple, needle-shaped; epigynal fold narrow; postepigastral scutum exceptionally narrow; central process absent, inner vulval plate well developed, vulval stem transverse.
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- Yucheng Lin, Shuqiang Li
- bibliographic citation
- Lin Y, Li S (2014) New cave-dwelling armored spiders (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae) from Southwest China ZooKeys 388: 35–67
- author
- Yucheng Lin
- author
- Shuqiang Li