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
PSEUDOLAMPONINAE
,
NEW SUBFAMILY
TYPE
GENUS:
Pseudolampona
,
new genus
.
DIAGNOSIS: Members of this subfamily are easily distinguished from both lamponines and centrothelines by the absence of a deep groove on the median surface of the palpal endites, as well as by the tiny, inconspicuous postepigastric sclerites. Because of their very small size and elevated carapace, they look at first glance more like textricellines than lamponids, but their typically gnaphosoid posterior median eyes easily separate them from textricellines.
DISTRIBUTION:
Australia
, including
Tasmania
(but not yet recorded from the
Northern Territory
).
INCLUDED GENERA:
Pseudolampona
and
Paralampona
, new genera.
KEY TO GENERA OF
PSEUDOLAMPONINAE
1. Abdomen usually with dark chevrons; males with patch of extremely thick, scalelike setae on posterior half of sternum and large median apophysis on palp; epigynum with lateral pockets........
Pseudolampona
– Abdomen usually unpatterned; males without