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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ceratogyrus" data-source="post: 23341" data-attributes="member: 371">Quick difference between Harpactira and other genera found in Southern Africa:<a href="http://s1239.photobucket.com/user/RuanLambrechts/media/Spiders/image-79.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff510/RuanLambrechts/Spiders/image-79.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><a href="http://s1239.photobucket.com/user/RuanLambrechts/media/Spiders/image-78.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff510/RuanLambrechts/Spiders/image-78.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Basically Harpactira have a patch of bristles (scopulae) on the inside and outside if the chilecerae whereas Ceratogyrus, Harpactira, Pterinochilus and Idiothele only have on the outside margin of the chelicerae. Brachionopus and Harpactirella don't have any scopulae on the chelicerae.</blockquote>