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
1
328
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
Pseudolampona kroombit
,
new species
Figures 774–777
;
Map 88
TYPES:
Male
holotype
from rainforest
pitfall
at
Three Moon Creek
,
Kroombit Tops
,
45 km
SSW Calliope
, 248259S, 1518039E,
Queensland
(
Dec. 9–19, 1983
;
V. Davies
,
J. Gallon
), deposited in
QMB
(
S34332
), and female
allotype
taken in a
Berlese
sample sieved from rainforest litter at an elevation of
940 m
at the same locality (
Dec. 15, 1983
;
G. Monteith
,
V. Davies
,
J. Gallon
,
D. Thompson
), deposited in
QMB
(
S25981
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the relatively short retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 775), relatively long embolus, and simple median apophysis (fig. 774), females by the angular lateral epigynal margins and weak transverse anterior epigynal ridge situated posterior of the epigynal hood (fig. 776) and the rounded median spermathecal lobes (fig. 777).
MALE: Total length 2.4. Abdominal dorsum with four dark, transverse stripes, anterior stripe extended posteriorly on sides of abdomen, posterior two or three stripes broken at middle, producing spotted appearance; venter as
P. warrandyte
. Retrolateral tibial apophysis short, triangular (fig. 775); embolus elongate, reaching almost to retrolateral edge of bulb, median apophysis simple, hooked (fig. 774).
FEMALE: Total length 3.1. Coloration as in male. Epigynum with weak but distinct anterior ridge situated behind anterior hood (fig. 776); spermathecae widely separated by rounded median lobes (fig. 777).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
Queensland
:
Mount Brisbane
, 278059S, 1528329E,
Oct. 6, 1979
(
R. Raven
,
QMB
S34337
), 1
?;
Three Moon Creek
,
Kroombit Tops
,
45 km
SSW Calliope
, 248259S, 1518039E,
Dec. 9 –19, 1983
(
V. Davies
,
J. Gallon
,
QMB
ex
S34332
), 3
?.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from southeastern
Queensland
(map 88).