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
3
343
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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
10092723
Habronestes hamatus
n.sp.
Figs. 19, 20
,
138
Type material
.
HOLOTYPE
3: NSW,
Pulletop
,
33°58'46"S
146°30'28"E
,
24.ii.1999
,
D. Driscoll
,
QM
S51505
.
Diagnosis
. Carapace sepia brown. Abdomen with 4 pairs of white patches on top and 2 patches in front of spinnerets. Male palp with VTA hidden by extremely large LTA; tibia with a thick spine retrolaterally at base of large, dorsolateral tibial apophysis.
Description
.
Male
(
holotype
). Total length 5.52; carapace 2.80 long, 2.00 wide; 1.28 high; cl/cw 1.40; sternum 1.40 long, 1.16 wide; sl/sw 1.21. Abdomen 2.72 long, 1.76 wide.
Colour
. Carapace sepia brown, iridescent; sternum reddish brown; chelicerae medium brown; maxillae, labium pale brown, bases darker brown. Abdomen sepia brown with 4 pairs of white patches on top and 2 patches in front of spinnerets; laterally sepia brown with 1 long horizontal white stripe reaching front; ventrally pink brown; legs medium brown with indistinct colour pattern; legs I–IV with pale brown coxa and sepia brown femur.
Carapace
. Raised at front.
Sternum
. Heart-shaped anteriorly straight; with lateral margin produced between coxae and intercoxae; glossy.
Eyes
. In 3 rows 2 4 2. PLE largest. Eye group width 0.7 of head width; AME 0.12; ALE 0.12; PME 0.18; PLE 0.30; AME–AME 0.06; AME–ALE 0.10; ALE–PLE 0.08; PME–PME 0.14; PME–PLE 0.14. MOQ: AME–PME 0.50; AME–AME 0.30; PME–PME 0.50.
Clypeus & chilum
. Clypeus 0.72 high; chilum undivided, long.
Male palp
(
Figs. 19, 20
). RCF
2
3
of the cymbium length. LTA with tshaped horizontal plate and 2 large hooks retrolaterally; DTA with thin stalk; VTA with blunt tip. Tibiae short; DTiA 1.5 as long as tibia, with thick basal spine.
Figs. 14–16.
Habronestes
body, dorsal view: (14)
Habronestes pseudoaustraliensis
n.sp.
; (15)
Habronestes rawlinsonae
n.sp.
; (16)
Habronestes hebronae
n.sp.
Scales 1 mm.
Female
. Unknown.
Distribution
. Known only from
type
locality in western
New South Wales
(
Fig. 138
).
Etymology
. Species name is an adjective (Latin:
hamatus
= with hooks) taken because of the large hooks on the retrolateral part of the LTA of the male palp.