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
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Lampona mildura
,
new species
Figures 178–181
;
Map 18
TYPE:
Female
holotype
taken under bark of
Eucalyptus camaldulensis
5 km
W Mildura
,
Victoria
, 348109S, 1428069E (
Sept. 21, 1985
;
M. Harvey
,
B. Scott
,
L. Hoare
), deposited in
AMS
(
KS31888
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Females resemble those of
L. yanchep
and
L. garnet
but can be distin
guished by the almost pentagonal epigynal midpiece (fig. 180). The male tentatively matched with the
holotype
resembles that specimen in coloration, sternal sculpturing, and femoral shape, and can easily be recognized by the odd shape of the retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 179).
MALE: Total length 5.2. Abdominal dorsum light anteriorly, with dark chevrons posteriorly; anterior femora slightly darkened, posterior femora with subdistal, tibiae with proximal and distal dark rings. Palpal femur darkened throughout its length but otherwise unmodified; retrolateral tibial apophysis lobeshaped, with narrow tip (fig. 179); tegulum short; embolus short, narrow, almost obscured by conductor in ventral view (fig. 178).
FEMALE: Total length 4.6. Coloration as in male, except posterior leg markings not evident (specimen probably collected soon after molt, before fully sclerotized). Epigynum with vshaped lateral margins (fig. 180); spermathecae with anterior portion rotund (fig. 181).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
New South Wales
:
Barren Grounds
, 348429S, 1508439E,
Sept. 3, 1996
(
AMS
KS49695
), 1
?;
Mount Keira
, 348249S, 1508519E, no date,
Berlese
, rotting log, rainforest, elev. ca.
1000 ft
(
E. Britton
,
QMB
), 1
?.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from northwestern
Victoria
and southern
New South Wales
(map 18).