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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.218.3662" ID-GBIF-Dataset="be3ba212-df72-46fb-beca-4dafa0af7938" ID-PMC="PMC3433871" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-218-1" ID-PubMed="22977344" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2012" ModsDocID="1313-2970-218-1" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 218" ModsDocTitle="Australian Assassins, Part III: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of tropical north-eastern Queensland" checkinTime="1451248776473" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Rix, Michael G. &amp; Harvey, Mark S." docDate="2012" docId="C9FB396648BCE34F00FD261BBEE65074" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 218: 1-55" docOrigin="ZooKeys 218" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.218.3662" docTitle="Austrarchaea woodae Rix &amp; Harvey, sp. n." docType="treatment" docVersion="4" lastPageNumber="15" masterDocId="FFADD3385D72C973FFABFFCEFFA9FB49" masterDocTitle="Australian Assassins, Part III: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of tropical north-eastern Queensland" masterLastPageNumber="50" masterPageNumber="1" pageNumber="14" updateTime="1668154407282" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Australian Assassins, Part III: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of tropical north-eastern Queensland</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Rix, Michael G.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Harvey, Mark S.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:date>2012</mods:date>
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<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:E4F1A9F7-33E3-4FCF-86CE-C14A1572F037" authority="Rix &amp; Harvey" class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea woodae" order="Araneae" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="woodae">Austrarchaea woodae Rix &amp; Harvey</taxonomicName>
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Figs 132225
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Vernacular name.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Mount Bartle Frere Assassin Spider</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Type material.</paragraph>
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Holotype male: Mount Bartle Frere, [Wooroonooran National Park], Boulder Caves, Queensland, Australia, [
<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="-17.383333">17°23'S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="145.78334">145°47'E</geoCoordinate>
], 1050 m, 8.XII.1990, G. Monteith, G. Thompson, D. Cook, R. Sheridan (QMB S72988).
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Etymology.</paragraph>
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The specific epithet is a patronym in honour of Dr Hannah Wood, for her pioneering research into the systematics, biology and biogeography of assassin spiders and other
<taxonomicName genus="Palpimanoidea" lsidName="Palpimanoidea" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" rank="genus">Palpimanoidea</taxonomicName>
, and for her collaborative support of MGR and MSH during assassin spider research conducted at the Western Australian Museum.
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea woodae" order="Araneae" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="woodae">Austrarchaea woodae</taxonomicName>
can be distinguished from all other
<taxonomicName family="Archaeidae" lsidName="" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" rank="family">Archaeidae</taxonomicName>
from north-eastern Queensland by the presence of a unique Type C pedipalp (Fig. 6), with a
<pageBreakToken pageId="14" pageNumber="15" start="start">proximally</pageBreakToken>
constricted conductor (Figs 6, 13D), large, flattened, distally folded tegular sclerite 3 (TS 3) (Figs 6, 13
<normalizedToken originalValue="DE">D-E</normalizedToken>
), and apple-shaped bulb profile in ventral view (Figs 6, 13
<normalizedToken originalValue="CD">C-D</normalizedToken>
). This species can be further distinguished by the dense, pick-like tuft of accessory setae on the male chelicerae (Fig. 13B; similar only to
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea harmsi" order="Araneae" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="harmsi">Austrarchaea harmsi</taxonomicName>
among Australian
<taxonomicName family="Archaeidae" lsidName="" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" rank="family">Archaeidae</taxonomicName>
), and by the almost spherical abdomen with recumbent hump-like tubercles (Fig. 13A; similar only to species of
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea" order="Araneae" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Zephyrarchaea</taxonomicName>
among Australian
<taxonomicName family="Archaeidae" lsidName="" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" rank="family">Archaeidae</taxonomicName>
).
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Description.</paragraph>
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Holotype male: Total length 3.54; leg I femur 3.74; F1/CL ratio 2.95. Cephalothorax dark reddish-brown; legs tan-brown with darker annulations; abdomen mottled grey-brown and beige, with darker brown dorsal scute and sclerites (Fig. 13A). Carapace very tall (CH/CL ratio 2.22); 1.27 long, 2.82 high, 1.18 wide,
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0.56 wide; bearing two pairs of rudimentary horns; highest point of pars cephalica (HPC) near posterior third of
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(ratio of HPC to post-ocular length 0.67), carapace steeply sloping and convex posterior to HPC;
<normalizedToken originalValue="head">'head'</normalizedToken>
moderately elevated dorsally (post-ocular ratio 0.31). Chelicerae with dense, pick-like tuft of accessory setae on anterior face of paturon (Fig. 13B). Abdomen 1.69 long, 1.44 wide; almost spherical, with largely recumbent hump-like tubercles; dorsal scute fused anteriorly to epigastric sclerites. Unexpanded pedipalp (Figs 13
<normalizedToken originalValue="CE">C-E</normalizedToken>
) of Type C morphology (Fig. 6), with retrolaterally directed, proximally constricted conductor and apple-shaped bulb profile in ventral view; embolus distally directed, slightly sinuous, without spur; tegular sclerite 3 (TS 3) large, flattened, with prominent, distally folded apex; TS 2-2a looped over retrolateral edge of conductor, TS 2 with strongly developed, spur-like apex extending to near distal rim of conductor, TS 2a looping around TS 3 proximally and projecting beyond distal rim of conductor to near tip of embolus; TS 1 indistinct, obscured by TS 2-3.
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Female: Unknown.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="15">
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea woodae" order="Araneae" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="woodae">Austrarchaea woodae</taxonomicName>
is known only from near the summit of Mount Bartle Frere, 12 km south-west of Babinda (Figs 22, 25). The only known specimen was collected in high altitude tropical rainforest.
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Conservation status.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Unknown (data deficient).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="15">
See Remarks for
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(above).
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