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 humptydoo
,
new species
Figures 630–633
;
Map 66
TYPE:
Female
holotype
from Trepang Road, Humpty Doo, 128359S, 1318059E,
Northern Territory
(
Mar. 21, 1993
;
J. Webber
), deposited in
MNT
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Males of this distinctive species can be recognized by the longitudinal dorsal branch of the terminal apophysis (fig. 630), females by the anterior epigynal hood and long epigynal ducts (figs. 632, 633).
MALE: Total length 5.0. Coloration as in
A. phaleratus
. Leg spination: tibiae: III v1p 1p2, r000; IV v1p1p2; metatarsi: III v0 00; IV p010, v1p00, r010. Retrolateral tibial apophysis very short, reaching only about onefifth length of cymbium (fig. 631); ventral prong of terminal apophysis relatively short, wide, dorsal prong oriented longitudinally (fig. 630).
FEMALE: Total length 6.8. Coloration as in
A. phaleratus
. Leg spination: tibiae III, IV p000, v002, r000; metatarsi III, IV v0 00. Epigynum with small, triangular anterior hood, anteromedian portion of atrial surface heavily sclerotized (fig. 632); ducts long, anteriorly looped (fig. 633).
Figs. 630–633.
Asadipus humptydoo
,
new species
.
630.
Left male palp, ventral view.
631.
Same, retrolateral view.
632.
Epigynum, ventral view.
633.
Same, dorsal view.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
Northern Territory
:
Kapalga
, 128369S, 1328259E,
Apr. 28, 1992
(
A. Andersen
,
WAM 96
/670), 1
?;
South Alligator River
, 128409S, 1328309E,
Apr. 13, 1977
(
R. Pengilley
,
MNT
), 1
/.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from far northern
Australia
(map 66).