''Calamoneta'' is a genus of southeastern Asian spiders within the family

Cheiracanthiidae ''Cheiracanthiidae'' is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Vladimir Wagner in 1887. The synonym Eutichuridae was used for a long time, but Cheiracanthiidae has priority. The largest genus currently recognized as belonging to this ...

. It was originally placed in the Miturgidae, but it was moved by Ramírez in 2014. It was named and first described by

Christa Deeleman-Reinhold Christa Laetitia Deeleman-Reinhold (born 23 November 1930) is a Dutch arachnologist. She specializes in spiders from Southeast Asia and Southern Europe, particularly cave-dwelling and tropical spiders. She donated a collection of about 25,000 So ...

in 2001. The name is derived from the Greek "kalamos", meaning "something woven". There are two species in this genus, ''C. djojosudharmoi'' – the type species – and ''C. urata''.

Description

These spiders are thin and green, commonly found on the undersides of leaves. They are found in parts of

Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...

, Java, and northern Queensland. The legs are long and thin. There is a small window before the coxa, and the

trochanters A trochanter is a Tubercle (human skeleton), tubercle of the femur near its joint with the hip bone. In humans and most mammals, the trochanters serve as important muscle attachment sites. Humans are known to have three trochanters, though the ...

do not have any notches. A round depression is in the place of the thoracic groove. In males, the chelicerae are longer and projected. Spiders of this genus can be distinguished from other spiders of the family by the absence notches in the trochanters, the absence of a cymbial spur in males, and the absence of an epigynal window in females.

References

Spiders of Asia Spiders of Australia Araneomorphae genera Cheiracanthiidae {{Cheiracanthiidae-stub