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
Lampona chalmers
,
new species
Figures 102–105
;
Map 7
TYPE:
Female
holotype
taken in a
pitfall trap
at
C.
Hollins
on Mount Chalmers, 238189S, 1508389E,
Queensland
(
Mar. 16, 1993
;
D. Wallace
), deposited in
QMB
(
S22184
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Both sexes can be recognized by their distinctively dark coloration, males by the prolaterally hooked tip of the retrolateral tibial apophysis (figs. 102, 103), and females by their heartshaped epigynal atrium (fig. 104).
MALE: Total length 5.0. Abdominal dorsum almost black, with five white spots reduced to narrow transverse bands; distal portions of femora, all of patellae, all of anterior tibiae, and distal portions of posterior tibiae greatly darkened. Palpal femur darkened throughout its length but otherwise unmodified; tip of retrolateral tibial apophysis hooked prolaterally (fig. 103); tegulum expanded, reaching to about onethird of tibial length, embolus hidden in ventral view by sclerotized prolateral rim of conductor (fig. 102).
Figs. 106–109.
Lampona flavipes
L. Koch.
106.
Left male palp, ventral view.
107.
Same, retrolateral view.
108.
Epigynum, ventral view.
109.
Same, dorsal view.
FEMALE: Total length 5.4. Coloration as in male. Epigynum with large, posteriorly situated, heartshaped atrium (fig. 104); spermathecae tripartite, posterior portions long, narrow (fig. 105).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: The male associated with the
holotype
was taken in litter at Homevale, 218249S, 1488339E,
April 1–7, 1975
(V. Davies, R. Kohout, QMB
S25979
).
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from mideastern
Queensland
(map 7).