Revision of the Australian Spider Genus Habronestes (Araneae: Zodariidae). Species of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory
Author
Baehr, Barbara
text
Records of the Australian Museum
2003
2003-12-10
55
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https://journals.australian.museum/baehr-2003-rec-aust-mus-553-343376/
journal article
10.3853/j.0067-1975.55.2003.1389
2201-4349
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Habronestes ungari
n.sp.
Figs. 38
,
44, 45
,
49
,
139
Type material
.
HOLOTYPE
3: NSW, Ungarie SF,
33°39'44"S
147°4'6"E
,
25.iii.1996
,
Callitris
forest F2 Trap B4,
21–28 Mar 1996
, D.
Smith &
R
.
Harris,
AM
KS83934
.
PARATYPE
:
13 same data as holotype,
AM
KS49586
.
Diagnosis
. Abdomen with 3 pairs of white patches dorsally, and 2 patches in front of spinnerets. Male palp, with LTA with a short vertical stalk and sickle-shaped plate with dorsal spines. VTA sickle-shaped, extremely short, with rounded tip. Palpal tibia without real tibial apophysis.
Description
.
Male
(
holotype
). Total length 6.16; carapace 3.00 long, 2.00 wide; 1.20 high; cl/cw 1.50; sternum 1.44 long, 1.20 wide. Abdomen 3.16 long, 1.76 wide.
Colour
. Carapace chestnut brown with dark fovea and dark radiating stripes; sternum pale brown; chelicerae medium brown; maxillae and labium pale brown, distally white. Abdomen sepia brown with 3 pairs of white patches on anterior part and 2 patches in front of spinnerets; laterally with 2 long white patches, first one larger; ventrally medium brown.
Legs pale brown with indistinct colour pattern; legs I–IV with coxa and trochanter white, proximal ½ of femora white and distal ½ sepia brown, darker brown lateral stripes on patella and tibia.
Eyes
. In 2 rows each with 4 eyes, both rows procurved. AME largest. AME 0.27; ALE 0.18; PME 0.18; PLE 0.18; AME–AME 0.02; AME–ALE 0.04; ALE– PLE 0.04; PME–PME 0.12; PME–PLE 0.14. MOQ. AME– PME 0.58; AME–AME 0.56; PME–PME 0.48.
Clypeus & chilum
. Clypeus 0.48 high; chilum undivided, short.
Legs
. Length formula 4123; femora III, IV with a row of 3–4 stout dorsal spines at distal end; patella III, IV with 2 longitudinal rows of stout spines prolaterally.
Male palp
(
Figs. 44, 45
,
49
). RCF flat, ½ of the cymbium length; LTA with sickleshaped plate and dorsal spines. DTA with a thin stalk; VTA sickle-shaped, extremely short with rounded tip; tibiae without real tibial apophysis, with 1 long prolateral seta.
Female
. Unknown.
Distribution
. Known only from
type
locality in western
New South Wales
(
Fig. 139
).
Etymology
. Species name is taken from the
type
locality.
second gully N of
Wonga Gully
,
30°48'39"S
152°7'26"E
,
4.ii–9.iv.
1993
, 270 m, G/C,
AM
KS39412
.
Diagnosis
. Abdomen with 3 pairs of white patches dorsally, and 2 patches in front of spinnerets. Metatarsus I with 1 row of about 15 small spines ventrally in males.