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
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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
5348675
Lamponata daviesae
,
new species
Figures 275
,
319–322
;
Map 38
TYPE:
Male
holotype
taken in
pitfall
trap at
Lake
Broadwater
, SW Dalby, 278119S, 1518169E,
Queensland
(
May 17–Nov. 24, 1985
;
M. Bennie
), deposited in
QMB
(
S34374
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of Dr. Valerie Davies of the
Queensland
Museum, whose extensive sorting of the Lake Broadwater material has produced numerous unusual lamponids, including the best series of this species.
DIAGNOSIS: With the characters of the genus and genitalia as in figures 319–322. The only taxa that could be confused with this species are males of the
Lampona cylindrata
group, which have a similarly long retrolateral tibial apophysis but have a basally protruding palpal bulb.
MALE: Total length 2.7. Dorsum of abdomen light gray with five broken transverse rows of dark spots (fig. 275), venter with vshaped dark marking; legs unmarked. Palpal femur sharply bent at about onefifth its length, enlarged distally; retrolateral tibial apophysis long, distally flattened; cymbium produced ventrally (figs. 319, 320).
FEMALE: Total length 3.5. Coloration as in male except ventral abdominal dark mark absent. Epigynum with small, semicircular anterior hood far removed from midpiece (fig. 321); spermathecae compact, anterior portion only slightly expanded (fig. 322).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
Northern Territory
:
cliff N of old ranger station, 11.3 km S
Hermannsburg
, 248039S, 1328469E,
Oct. 1994
,
pitfall
(
NMV
K4669
), 1
/;
Todd River
,
Alice Springs
, 238429S, 1338539E,
July 1, 1969
, sifted material from bark at trunk of large eucalypt trees (J.
Balogh
,
HNMH
), 1/.
Queensland
:
Bushley Station
, 238329S, 1508159E,
Mar. 21–Oct. 22, 1990
,
pitfall
, open forest (
D. Wallace
,
R. Raven
, K.
Williams
,
QMB
S30410
), 1
/;
33 mi.
S Blackall
, 248259S, 1458289E,
May 31, 1956
, dry leaf litter, brigalow, wilga (F.
Perkins
,
OMD
), 1
/;
Lake Broadwater
,
SW Dalby
, 278119S, 1518169E,
Jan. 26–Feb. 19, 1985
,
pitfall
(M.
Bennie
,
QMB
S28651
), 1/,
May 17–Nov. 24, 1985
,
pitfalls
(M.
Bennie
,
QMB
S28639
), 1?, 1/,
Nov. 24, 1985
–
Jan. 3, 1986
,
pitfall
(M.
Bennie
,
QMB
S28653
), 1?,
Jan. 3–Feb. 25, 1986
,
pitfall
(M.
Bennie
,
QMB
S28644
), 1?,
Apr. 22–June 12, 1986
,
pitfall
(M.
Bennie
,
QMB
S28640
), 1
?;
Taroom district
,
Boggomoss No.
3, 258269S
, 1508019E,
Nov. 12, 1996
Jan. 1997
,
pitfall
(
G. Monteith
, D.
Cook
,
QMB
S36335
), 1
?;
Windermere
, near
Glenmorgan
, 278179S, 1498459E,
Dec. 1990
–
Sept. 1991
(
R. Raven
,
B. Smyth
,
QMB
ex
S30363
), 1?.
South Australia
:
Jimmys Well
,
Mount Rescue Conservation Park
, 358519S, 1408189E, in litter (D.
Hirst
,
SAM
N1996
/316, 317), 2
?;
3 km
S Mount Sturt
, 328469S, 1358249E,
Dec. 13–17, 1989
,
pitfall
(D.
Hirst
,
SAM
N1997
/ 132), 1
?;
14 km
WNW Renmark
, 348079S, 1408379E,
Aug. 8–Sept. 7, 1995
,
intercept trap
(K.
Pullen
,
QMB
S34289
), 1
?;
79 km
NNW Renmark
, 338319S, 1408249E,
Aug. 9– Sept. 7, 1995
,
intercept trap
(K.
Pullen
,
QMB
), 1
?;
W ranger station, Rocky River, Flinders Chase, Kangaroo Island, 358579S, 1368439E,
Nov. 7–9, 1987
,
pitfall
(D.
Hirst
,
SAM
N1997
/131), 1?.
Western Australia
:
Tamala Station
, 268409S, 1138409E,
Nov. 8, 1998
(V.
Ovtsharenko
,
AMNH
), 1
/;
Woodstock Station
, 218379S, 1188579E,
Feb. 10– 17, 1989
,
pitfall
(J.
Waldock
,
R. How
,
J. Dell
,
WAM 96
/752), 1
/.
DISTRIBUTION: Widespread in drier parts of
Australia
(map 38).