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faber females lack dorsal abdominal tubercles. Like Siratoba but 
unlike Ariston, their clypeus height in anterior view is equal to the 
AME diameter. Conifaber males lack first femoral macrosetae 
present in Ariston and Siratoba males (Opell, 1979, figs. 39, 70) and, 
like Ariston, lack abdominal tubercles. 
Using Opell’s (1979) keys to uloborid genera, Conifaber males key 
to couplet 10, which separates Octonoba and Purumitra, and 
females key to couplet 10, which separates Octonoba and Uloborus. 
Conifaber males are distinguished from those of Octonoba and 
Purumitra by having first femora whose lengths are equal to rather 
than 1.5 to 2.0 times as long as the carapace, by lacking femoral 
macrosetae present in these genera (Opell, 1979; figs. 181, 183), and 
by having a longer, more conspicuous tegular spur than these genera 
(Fig. 14; Opell, 1979; plate 6-c, fig. 157). Conifaber females lack 
dorsal abdominal tubercles present in Octonoba and Uloborus 
(Opell, 1979; figs. 132, 140) and have inconspicuous, anteriorly 
directed epigynal lobes (Figs. 24-26) instead of conspicuous poste- 
riorly directed lateral epigynal lobes (Opell, 1979; figs. 137, 145, 178, 
184). 
Description. Maximum carapace width 0.84 carapace length, 
attained in posterior half of female carapace and in posterior third 
of male carapace (Figs. 21-22). Female carapace slopes up to a 
point just behind PLE and then down to AME (Fig. 20). Male 
carapace slopes more steeply up to a point slightly forward of its 
center and then down to PME (Fig. 23). Shallow, transverse female 
thoracic groove at carapace center; deep, U-shaped male thoracic 
groove in posterior quarter of carapace. In both sexes anterior eye 
row strongly recurved so that a line across AME’s posterior margins 
passes in front of ALE’s by a distance equal to one ALE diameter. 
Posterior eye row slightly recurved so that a line across PME’s 
posterior margins passes along PLE’s anterior margins. Median 
ocular area’s length and posterior width 0.8 its anterior width. 
Female AME diameter 0.75 that of male AME, remaining eyes 
equal to 0.66 female AME and 0.50 male AME. AME’s 1.3 as far 
from one another as from ALE’s, PME’s 1 .7 as far from one another 
as from PLE’s. Sternum 0.80 as wide as long, widest between first 
and second coxae. Female endite 0.80 and male endite 1.00 as wide 
as long. Labium 1.40 as wide as long. First femur equal in length to 
carapace. Male first tibia with six or seven short and one long 
