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
Asadipus banjiwarn
,
new species
Figures 610–613
;
Map 65
TYPES:
Female
holotype
and male
allotype
from mallee, mulga, and triodia assemblage at
Banjiwarn
, 278489S, 1218409E,
Western Australia
(
May 1979
;
R. How
), deposited in
WAM
(96/644, 645)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Males of this distinctive, small species can be recognized easily by the widened palpal bulb, with the terminal apophysis widely overlapping the embolus (fig. 610), females by the large epigynal openings and medially coiled epigynal ducts (figs. 612, 613).
MALE: Total length 3.8. Coloration as in
A. phaleratus
, with clypeus area anteriorly produced. Leg spination: tibiae: III p000, v001p, r000; IV p000, v1p1p1p, r00 0; metatarsi: III v000, IV v01p0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis extending about onehalf of cymbial length (fig. 611); ventral portion of terminal apophysis overlapping embolus in ventral view, dorsal portion almost sickleshaped, median apophysis originating on recessed ledge (fig. 610).
FEMALE: Total length 5.0. Coloration as in
A. phaleratus
. Leg spination: tibiae III, IV p000, v001p, r000; metatarsi III, IV v0 00. Epigynum with large, anteriorly directed openings (fig. 612); ducts irregularly coiling between and anterior of spermathecae (fig. 613).
Figs. 610–613.
Asadipus banjiwarn
,
new species
.
610.
Left male palp, ventral view.
611.
Same, retrolateral view.
612.
Epigynum, ventral view.
613.
Same, dorsal view.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
Western Australia
:
Banjiwarn
, 278489S, 1218419E,
May 26–31, 1974
, mulga, eremophila, bunchgrass (
R. How
,
WAM 96
/643), 1
?;
Barlee Range Nature Reserve
, 238069S, 1168009E,
June 19–22, 1994
, dry
pitfall
(
P., G. Kendrick
,
WAM 96
/646), 1
?;
Bidgemia Station
,
Gasgoyne Junction
, 258079S, 1158269E,
June 6–Aug. 20, 1995
,
pitfalls
(
N. Hall
,
WAM 96
/642), 1
/;
Boolathana Station
, 248259S, 1138409E,
May 28–June 2, 1995
, dry
pitfall
(
J. Waldock
,
WAM 96
/649), 1
?;
Boolathana Station
, 248259S, 1138469E,
May 31–Aug. 25, 1995
,
pitfall
(
N. Hall
,
WAM 96
/650), 1?,
Aug. 20–Sept. 30, 1994
,
pitfall
(
A. Sampey
,
WAM 96
/648), 1
/;
Bush Bay
, 258079S, 1138489E,
May 23–Aug. 23, 1995
,
pitfall
(
H. Hall
,
WAM 96
/647), 1
?;
Cape Cuvier
,
Quobba Station
, 248089S, 1138279E,
May 31–Aug. 25, 1995
,
pitfall
(
N. Hall
,
WAM 96
/652), 1
?;
Cape Cuvier
,
Quobba Station
, 248129S, 1138279E,
Aug. 21–Sept. 29, 1995
,
pitfall
(
P. West
,
WAM 96
/ 653), 1
?;
Cape Cuvier
,
Quobba Station
, 248139S, 1138309E,
May 30–Aug. 24, 1995
,
pitfall
(
N. Hall
,
WAM 96
/651), 1
?;
Edel Land
, 268159S, 1138199E,
Sept. 9–14, 1989
(
G. Harold
,
WAM 96
/641), 1
?;
Francois Peron National Park
, 258539S, 1138339E,
May 22–27, 1995
, dry
pitfall
(
M. Harvey
,
WAM 96
/654), 1
?;
Kennedy Range National Park
, 248309S, 1158019E,
May 27–June 1, 1995
, dry
pitfall
(
P. West
,
WAM 96
/656), 1
?;
Kennedy Range National Park
, 248309S, 1158029E,
May 27–June 1, 1995
, dry
pitfall
(
P. West
,
WAM 96
/655), 1
?;
Mardathuna Station
, 248249S, 1148289E,
May 23–May 28, 1995
, dry
pitfall
(
A. Sampey
,
WAM 96
/658), 1?,
May 24–Aug. 26, 1995
,
pitfall
(
N. Hall
,
WAM 96
/657), 1
?;
Yundamindra
, 298239S, 1228289E,
July 1981
, mulga/shrubs (
W. Humphreys
,
WAM 96
/659), 1
?;
Yundamindra
, 298249S, 1228289E,
July 1981
,
pitfall
, mallee, mulga, triodia (
W. Humphreys
,
WAM 96
/684), 1
/;
Zuytdorp
, 278159S, 1148129E,
May 17–Aug. 16, 1995
,
pitfall
(
N. Hall
,
WAM 96
/660), 1
/;
Zuytdorp
, 278169S, 1148029E,
May 18–Aug. 17, 1995
,
pitfall
(
N. Hall
,
WAM 96
/661), 1
/.
Figs. 614–617.
Asadipus auld
,
new species
.
614.
Left male palp, ventral view.
615.
Same, retrolateral view.
616.
Epigynum, ventral view.
617.
Same, dorsal view.
DISTRIBUTION:
Western Australia
(map 65).