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
1
328
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
5348675
Paralampona wogwog
,
new species
Figures 812–815
;
Map 93
TYPES:
Female
holotype
and male
allotype
taken in
pitfall
traps
4 km
NE Mount Wog Wog
,
17 km
SE Bombala
, 378059S, 1498289E,
New South Wales
(
May 1985
;
C. Margules
), deposited in
QMB
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Males of this distinctive species can be recognized by the relatively short embolus (fig. 812) and retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 813), females by the strong posterior epigynal margin (fig. 814) and long, anteromedially directed spermathecal lobes (fig. 815).
MALE: Total length 1.3. Abdominal dorsum dark gray, venter white, legs pale yellow. Palpal femur unmodified, retrolateral tibial apophysis relatively short (fig. 813), embolus relatively short, strongly hooked (fig. 812).
FEMALE: Total length 1.7. Coloration as in male. Epigynum with pronounced posterior margin (fig. 814); spermathecal lobes long, anteromedially directed, widened at tip (fig. 815).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
New South Wales
:
4 km
NE Mount Wog Wog,
17 km
SE Bombala, 378059S, 1498289E,
Feb. 1985
, pitfall (C. Margules, QMB), 1?, 1/,
May 1985
, pitfall (C. Margules, QMB), 2/.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the southeastern
New South Wales
(map 93).