Monaeses brevicaudatus Koch, 1874

A distinctive genus characterized by a long narrow body, where the abdomen in most species extends beyond the spinnerets in a tail like extension. They are slow-moving spiders of medium size and cling to stems of plants with outstretched legs, the first two pairs directly forward, and the third and last pairs directly rearward. along the axis of the plant. They live on plants, mainly grass, where their long and straw-coloured bodies camouflage them well. Monaeses is a medium large genus of 20+ species world-wide. The genus clearly has similarities to Tmarus , with hints also at Synalus , Runcinia and perhaps Sidymella . Laurence Sanders rediscovered this genus in Emerald at the heart of Daemel's collecting area in the 1860s 1870s, and therefore type location of a lot of Koch & Keyserling (Die Arachniden Australiens) spiders which were described from the Hamburg collection. Not yet being found in southern Australian states suggests a radiation from the north, from Sri Lanka or the Phillipines or nearby. It seems not to cross over the Wallace line. Well done Laurence Sanders; another mystery solved.