The carapace is medium brown and dark-edged, with a narrower band of prone white hairs down each side. The legs are similar in colour to the carapace and slightly infuscate, also clothed with appressed whitish hairs. The dorsal surface of the abdomen has a median testaceous band down the entire length, broader anteriorly and narrower and serrated or plumed posteriorly, with outer edges dark and lateral border of abdomen dark.[3]
Conservation
Aneplasa balnearia is listed as Data Deficient for taxonomic reasons. The species is protected in the Anysberg Nature Reserve. More sampling is needed to collect males and more accurately determine the species' range.[3]
Etymology
The species name balnearia is derived from Latin "relating to baths".
Taxonomy
The species was originally described by R.W.E. Tucker in 1923 from Montagu in the Western Cape. It has not been revised since the original description and is known only from females. [3]
References
↑ Tucker, R. W. E. (1923). "The Drassidae of South Africa". Annals of the South African Museum. 19 (2): 251–437.
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