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
245
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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 longforest
,
new species
Figures 634–637
;
Map 65
TYPES:
Female
holotype
and male
allotype
taken in
pitfall
traps in bull mallee and grey box woodland at
Longforest
, 368399S, 1448309E,
Victoria
(
Mar. 13–19, 1992
;
B. Van Praagh
,
P. Lillywhite
), deposited in
NMVS
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the arched dorsal prong of the terminal apophysis (fig. 634), females by the anterior epigynal ducts making a full circle (fig. 637).
MALE: Total length 4.3. Coloration as in
A. phaleratus
. Leg spination: tibiae: III p0 00, v001p, r000; IV p000, v1p1p2, r000; metatarsi: III v000; IV v1p00. Retrolateral tibial apophysis reaching to about half of cymbial length (fig. 635); ventral prong of terminal apophysis relatively narrow, dorsal prong arched, distally twisted (fig. 634).
FEMALE: Total length 5.4. Coloration as in
A. phaleratus
. Leg spination: tibiae: III p0 00, v1p02, r000; IV p000, v1p1p2, r000; metatarsi: III v000; IV v1p00. Anterior epigynal ducts forming full circle around epigynal openings (fig. 636); spermathecae situated medially, semicircular (fig. 637).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
South Australia
:
4 km
N Bucks Camp
,
Mount Rescue Conservation Park
, 358569S, 1408189E,
Mar. 18, 1992
, vibration (
D. Hirst
,
SAM
N1997
/ 93), 1
/;
0.1 km N
Grainger Lagoon
, Kan garoo
Island
, 358549S, 1368539E,
Mar. 9–15, 1995
,
pitfall
(
T. Herbert
,
SAM
N1996
/427), 1
?;
Pinkawillinie Conservation Park
, 328079S, 1368009E,
May 21, 1990
,
pitfall
(
D. Hirst
,
SAM
N1997
/94), 1?.
Tasmania
:
Queens Domain
, 428529S, 1478199E,
Aug.– Sept. 1942
, in cranberry bushes (
V. Hickman
,
AMS
KS29241
), 1?, 1
/;
Trevallyn
, 418279S, 1478109E,
Mar. 17, 1928
, under stone (
V. Hickman
,
AMS
KS29289
), 1
/;
Waterhouse Point
, 408519S, 1478389E,
Apr. 1987
, coastal heath (
T. Churchill
,
QVM 13
: 1981), 1?.
Victoria
:
7 km
ENE Kingower
, 368359S, 1438509E,
Mar. 26–29, 1990
, mallee (
A. Coventry
,
NMV
K4651
), 1
?;
Longforest
, 368399S, 1448309E,
Mar. 13–19, 1992
,
pitfalls
, bull mallee, grey box woodland (
B. Van Praagh
,
P. Lillywhite
,
NMVS
), 2?, 1
/.
Figs. 634–637.
Asadipus longforest
,
new species
.
634.
Left male palp, ventral view.
635.
Same, retrolateral view.
636.
Epigynum, ventral view.
637.
Same, dorsal view.
DISTRIBUTION:
South Australia
,
Victoria
, and
Tasmania
(map 65).