About Uroballus carlei Logunov & Obenauer, 2019
Like all other species in the Uroballus genus, Uroballus carlei has unusually long spinnerets and a flat, broadened carapace. Males of this species have a total body length around 3 millimeters. Their abdomen is unusually long, marked with a longitudinal serrate brown stripe, and is densely covered with long, erect hairs. The only known female specimen is likely immature, and this individual is only documented through photographs included in Dickson Wong’s 2016 book A Guide to the Spiders of Hong Kong. Uroballus carlei was formally described based on a single male specimen collected in 2018 from a railing at the edge of Shek O Country Park, Hong Kong, which is the only recorded location for this species to date.
