Order Araneae Rank Genus | ||
Similar Cithaeronidae, Homalonychus, Prodidomidae, Trochanteriidae, Ground spider | ||
Inthaeron is a genus of spiders in the Cithaeronidae family native to India. First described by Norman I. Platnick in 1991, it contains only one species. Females can be distinguished from those of its sister genus, Cithaeron, by the arrangement of cylindrical gland spigots on the posterior median spinnerets appearing in two rows rather than in clusters. The name is derived from merging "India" with "Cithaeron", the name of the other genus of Cithaeronidae.
Species
The lone species in the genus is Inthaeron rossi. It was initially found in Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra, India, though it has also been found in Betul, Madhya Pradesh. Only the female characters were known until 1993, when a male specimen was finally captured and identified, bearing a distinctive, highly coiled embolus. They are generally around 7 millimetres (0.28 in) long and 2 millimetres (0.079 in) wide, the abdomen about twice as long as the carapace. The cephalothorax is a greenish-brown color, while the legs are a yellowish brown. The abdomen is mostly light brown and hairy with several stripes of various colors. It is named after one of the specimen's collectors.