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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Paralampona sherlock
,
new species
Figures 796–799
;
Map 91
TYPE:
Female
holotype
from a
Berlese
sample of mallee litter taken 3.2 km
W of Sherlock
, 358199S, 1398499E,
South Australia
(
Jan. 12, 1970
;
R. Taylor
), deposited in
QMB
.
Figs. 800–803.
Paralampona cobon
,
new species
.
800.
Left male palp, ventral view.
801.
Same, retrolateral view.
802.
Epigynum, ventral view.
803.
Same, dorsal view.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality, in honor of N. S. Platnick.
DIAGNOSIS: Males and females have not been collected together but are matched here on the basis of their bizarre genitalia and their similar distributions in mallee habitats. Males can easily be recognized by the massively inflated retrolateral tibial apophysis (figs. 796, 797), females by the dumbbellshaped spermathecae (figs. 798, 799).
MALE: Total length 1.3. Abdominal dorsum gray, darkest posteriorly. Palpal femur unmodified; retrolateral tibial apophysis inflated (fig. 797); embolus situated distally, curved (fig. 796).
FEMALE: Total length 2.3. Abdomen white, legs pale orange. Epigynum with short, posteriorly situated median septum (fig. 798); spermathecae dumbbellshaped (fig. 799).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
New South Wales
:
Booti Booti National Park
, 328169S, 1528329E,
July 12–16, 1996
,
pitfalls
, sand dunes (
L. Wilkie
,
AMS
KS50517–50521
), 5
?;
26 km
E
Euston
, 348349S, 1428449E,
Feb. 6, 1970
,
Berlese
, open mallee (
C. Brooks
,
QMB
), 1
/;
Trangie
, 328029S, 1478599E,
Mar. 8, 1968
, dry sclerophyll leaf litter (
L. Mound
,
QMB
), 1?.
Queensland
:
Lake Broadwater
, via
Dalby
, 278219S, 1518069E,
May 17–Nov. 24, 1995
,
pitfall
(
M. Bennie
,
QMB
S34321), 1?,
Apr. 22–June 12, 1986
,
pitfall
(
M. Bennie
,
QMB
S34313
), 1?.
Victoria
:
5 km
E Dunolly
, 368519S, 1438449E,
Aug. 4, 1983
, leaf litter (
R. Moran
,
QMB
), 1
?.
DISTRIBUTION: Apparently widespread in drier areas of southeastern
Australia
, except
Tasmania
(map 91).