A New Subfamily of Spiders with Grate-shaped Tapeta from Australia and Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Stiphidiidae: Borralinae)
Author
Gray, Michael R.
Author
Smith, Helen M.
text
Records of the Australian Museum
2008
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.60.2008.1493
journal article
10.3853/j.0067-1975.60.2008.1493
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Asmea akrikensis
n.sp.
Figs 8e
,
18a,b
Type material.
Papua New Guinea
:
Western Province
:
HOLOTYPE
:
?
, KS45033, SE slopes of
Mt Akrik
,
15 km
NW of Tabubil
,
5°10'S
141°09'E
,
14 Nov. 1993
,
R.B. Lachlan
,
1625 m
.
Diagnosis
. Distinguished from males of other species by the wide separation of the two MA processes and the RDTA almost as long as the tibia.
Description
Male
(
holotype
). BL 6.73, CL 3.43, CW 2.65, CapW 1.47, EGW 0.98, LL 0.55, LW 0.49, SL 1.71, SW 1.47. Legs: 1423 (I: 13.14; II: 11.02 (RHS); III: 9.88; IV: 12.37); ratio tibia I length:CW = 1:0.82. AME≥PME>ALE≥PLE. Clypeus height ca 2× AME width. Metatarsi I and II dark brown and strongly sclerotized, bowed (dorsally concave) and dorsoventrally flattened. Male palp (
Fig. 18a,b
). Distal cymbium short, coniform. Apical margin of cymbial flange strongly offset. MA processes well separated, lateral process a flattened, twisted, weakly sclerotized spine. Deep indentation between TL and embolic base. RDTA a long keel, more than three-quarters length of tibia. Tibia with 3 strong prodorsal spine-like bristles.
Female
. Unknown.
Distribution
. Recorded only from the
type
locality.
Etymology
. The species name refers to the
type
locality, Mt Akrik.