Spinning apparatus abbreviations

Terminology

Collection details and rearing methods

Spinnerets examined

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of spinnerets: preparation and examination

Sex determination

Conventions applied in figures and tables

Instar/stadium assignments and molts to maturity

Anterior Lateral Spinnerets (ALS)

Posterior Median Spinnerets (PMS) – General description

Posterior Median Spinnerets (PMS) – Sexual and geographic dimorphism

Posterior Lateral Spinnerets (PLS)

Cylindrical silk gland (CY) spigots

Variable aciniform and minor ampullate silk gland (AC, MiA) characters among Australomimetus species

Constancy in the number of non-tartipore-accommodated (non-T-A) piriform silk glands (PI)

Recurrent use of piriform and aciniform silk glands (PI, AC)

Modified piriform silk glands (MoPI) in adult male mimetids

Cylindrical silk gland (CY) spigots

Aciniform silk gland (AC) spigot numbers in A. spinosus: sexual and geographic dimorphisms

Ampullate silk gland tartipore primordia in 1st instars

Phylogenetic aggregate-flagelliform silk gland (AG-FL) triad nubbin