A Relimitation And Revision Of The Australasian Ground Spider Family Lamponidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea)
Author
PLATNICK, NORMAN I.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2000
2000-01-27
2000
245
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0090%282000%29245%3C0001%3AARAROT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
journal article
10.1206/0003-0090(2000)245<0001:ARAROT>2.0.CO;2
0003-0090
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Lamponella kroombit
,
new species
Figures 378, 379
;
Map 45
TYPE:
Female
holotype
taken in
Berlese
sample of sieved open forest litter from
Kroombit Tops
, 248239S, 1518029E,
Queensland
(
Dec. 14, 1983
;
G. Monteith
,
V. Davies
,
J. Gallon
,
G. Thompson
), deposited in
QMB
(
S34359
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
Map 44. Records of
Lamponella homevale
,
new species
(circles) and
L. kimba
,
new species
(squares).
Figs. 392–395.
Lamponella taroom
,
new species
.
392.
Left male palp, ventral view.
393.
Same, retrolateral view.
394.
Epigynum, ventral view.
395.
Same, dorsal view.
DIAGNOSIS: Males are unknown; females have a distinctive, rounded epigynal atrium with anterior openings (fig. 378) and medially constricted spermathecae (fig. 379). Although it is conceivable that this species represents the female of
L. wombat
, epigynal similarities with the female of
L. homevale
suggest that the male of
L. kroombit
should be close to that of
L. homevale
, whereas the
L. wombat
appears to be closer to the less oddly modified males of
L. ainslie
and
L. kanangra
.
MALE: Unknown.
FEMALE: Total length 4.2 Abdominal dorsum dirty white, palest in cardiac area, legs unmarked. Epigynal atrium large, rounded, with openings situated anteriorly (fig. 378); spermathecae constricted medially, anterior lobes directed laterally (fig. 379).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.
Map 45. Records of
Lamponella taroom
,
new species
(circles) and
L. kroombit
,
new species
(square).
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the
type
locality in southeastern
Queensland
(map 45).