Remarkable Armoured Spider
This is the first species described under the genus named after Singapore. The spider was described from male and female specimens collected at MacRitchie Reservoir by Michael W.F. Tweedie, a former Director of the Raffles Museum, in 1950. The species name "singulare" is derived from the Latin word for "singular" and refers to the unusual or unique characters of this discovery from Singapore. These characters are given in the previous page introducing the genus Singaporemma. One of the unique characters of this species is that the male palp has a nearly straight embolus but with a distinctively broadened apex that looks like a scimitar. The species also differs from S. lenachanae by several other microscopic details.
| Length | ♀ 1 mm; ♂ 1 mm |
| Type Locality | Singapore |
| Distribution | Singapore. |
| Habitat | Forest leaf litter. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Singaporemma singularis (Original description ♂♀)
Shear, 1978 Taxonomic notes on the armored spiders of the families Tetrablemmidae and Pacullidae: 36, f. 108-111
Singaporemma singulare (♂♀)
Lin & Li, in Lin et al., 2017 Taxonomic notes on the armored spiders of the families Pacullidae and Tetrablemmidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from Singapore: 47, f. 22A-H, 23A-E, G-H, 24A-H, 25A-E, 26A-D doi:10.3897/zookeys.661.10677
Singaporemma singulare (♂♀)
Yan & Lin, 2018 A review of the spider genus Singaporemma (Araneae: Tetrablemmidae), with the description of a new species: 335, f. 6C,c, 9A doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4392.2.6
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
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