| 11. | They belong to the RTA clade of spiders, spiders that all have a Retrolateral Tibial Apophysis on the male pedipalp.
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| 12. | However they are not parasitic but free-living and predatory and are found in soil and tarsus of the pedipalp.
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| 13. | They show a rather slim habitus with long walking legs and a slender metasoma; pedipalp chelae very gracile and elongate.
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| 14. | However, the male pedipalp, chelicera and cephalothorax drawn by Proszynski ( 1984 ), and recently collected specimens indicate otherwise.
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| 15. | A redescription of this male, together with drawings of pedipalp, chelicerae and habitus, was provided by Fred Wanless in 1988.
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| 16. | The conformation of the pedipalp and the abdominal pattern suggest that " Ergane " is close to " Chalcotropis ".
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| 17. | There are drawings in the original description, and the male pedipalp and unusual serrate cheliceral tooth has been drawn by Proszynski in 1983.
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| 18. | The species can be reliably distinguished from " T . opulenta " by the epigyne in females or by the pedipalp in males.
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| 19. | The turn exposes her genital pore, which lies on the underside of the abdomen, and the male inserts one semen-laden pedipalp.
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| 20. | After two or three minutes the male withdraws this pedipalp, turns the female's abdomen the other way and inserts the other pedipalp.
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