Levy, Gershom
Calommata
Sign in to saveCalommata is a genus of purseweb spiders first described by Hippolyte Lucas in 1837.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyAtypidae
Observations51
Observations recorded247
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4
- Family
- Atypidae
- Collections
- MZLU, ARC-PPRI, USNM
- Recorded in
- Indonesia, South Africa
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- Commons category
- Calommata
- taxon name
- Calommata
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Calommata
- taxonomic type
- Calommata fulvipes
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- Description
- Behavior and ecology
- Distribution and species
- Species
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Calommata is a genus of purseweb spiders first described by Hippolyte Lucas in 1837.
==Description== The carapace is glabrous and yellowish brown with darker stains on the cephalic region. The cephalic region is strongly arched, and the fovea is deep and bipartite. Eight eyes are situated on a compact transverse tubercle near the fovea.
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