Chocolate Goblin Spider
The male is similar to I. dactylinus in having a darkened belt with a finely reticulate (mesh-like) pattern around the margins of the carapace. In both sides, the dorsal abdominal scutum are well sclerotised, and cover almost 5/6 of the abdominal length. The female carapace, as well as the dorsal abdominal scutum in both sexes, are uniformly chocolate-coloured. Such a colouration inspired the species name "brunneus", meaning "brown" in Latin.
| Length | ♀ >1 mm; ♂ >1 mm. |
| Habitat | Leaf litter in primary and mature secondary forests. |
| Type Locality | Singapore. |
| Distribution | Singapore. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Ischnothyreus brunneus (Original description ♂♀)
Tong & Li, in Tong et al., 2016 Five new species of the genus Ischnothyreus Simon, 1893 from Singapore: 45, f. 4-6 doi:10.3897/zookeys.618.9451
Singapore.