1967] 
2 3 
Reiskind and Levi — Theridiid Spider 
is broadly joined to the embolus and the radix is absent. (It has 
since been found that the “radix” of theridiid spiders is homologous 
to the median apophysis of araneid spiders and the “median apophysis” 
to the radix). 
Record: Male from rainforest at Ciu, near Mt. Canala, 300 m, 
New Caledonia, 31 Dec. 1954 — 1 Jan. 1955 (E. O. Wilson) in 
the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 
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1927. Sur une Araignee myrmecomorphe de Nouvelle-Caledonie. Bull. 
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1851. Uebersicht des Arachiden — Systems. Heft 5: 41. 
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1962. The Genera of the Spider Family Theridiidae. Bull. Mus. Comp. 
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1841. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, Apteres. 2: 461-463. Paris. 
