Humpback Goblin Spider
The male carapace is elevated with a prominent hump, without the mesh-like pattern on its sides. Its abdomen is dark in colour with a weakly sclerotised dorsal abdominal scutum.
The dorsal abdominal scutum of the female is more strongly sclerotised and occupies about half the length of the female abdomen.
Length | ♀ <2 mm; ♂ <2 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 poculum (Original description ♂♀)
Tong & Li, in Tong et al., 2016 Five new species of the genus Ischnothyreus Simon, 1893 from Singapore: 55, f. 10-12 doi:10.3897/zookeys.618.9451
Singapore.