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
Lampona taroom
,
new species
Figures 162–165
;
Map 16
TYPE:
Male
holotype
taken in baited flight
intercept
trap at
Boggomoss
, via
Taroom
, 258269S, 1508019E,
Queensland
(
Nov. 12, 1996
–
Jan. 1997
;
D. Cook
,
G. Monteith
), deposited in
QMB
(
S36315
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: This species seems closest to
L. yanchep
, sharing with it a subbasal knob on the male palpal femur and a deeply excavated epigynal atrium; males differ in having a longer, more curved tip on the retro lateral tibial apophysis (fig. 163), females in having an anteriorly narrower epigynal atrium (fig. 164).
Figs. 158–161.
Lampona yanchep
,
new species
.
158.
Left male palp, ventral view.
159.
Same, retrolateral view.
160.
Epigynum, ventral view.
161.
Same, dorsal view.
MALE: Total length 7.2. Abdominal dorsum shrunken from cuticle, markings indistinct, apparently with paramedian white markings, venter and legs unmarked. Palpal femur with distinct subbasal knob; retrolateral tibial apophysis long, with recurved tip (fig. 163); palpal bulb elongate, embolus with long, strong tip (fig. 162).
FEMALE: Total length 7.0. Abdominal dorsum with markings indistinct but apparently with posterior white chevrons, venter unmarked, tibiae IV with subdistal, slightly darkened rings. Epigynum with longitudinal atrium, deeply excavated anteriorly (fig. 164); spermathecae tripartite, median portions much longer than anterior or posterior portions (fig. 165).
Map 16. Records of
Lampona yanchep
,
new species
(circles),
L. taroom
,
new species
(square), and
L. allyn
,
new species
(triangles).
Figs. 162–165.
Lampona taroom
,
new species
.
162.
Left male palp, ventral view.
163.
Same, retrolateral view.
164.
Epigynum, ventral view.
165.
Same, dorsal view.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
Queensland
:
Taroom District, 258259S, 1498589E,
Sept. 10–Nov. 12, 1996
, pitfall, vine thicket on hill (P. Lawless, QMB
S34406
), 1/.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from southeastern
Queensland
(map 16).