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
Paralampona aurumagua
,
new species
Figures 804–807
;
Map 92
TYPES:
Female
holotype
and male
allotype
taken in litter at
Gold Creek
Reservoir
,
Brookfield
, 278309S, 1528559E,
Queensland
(
June 2, 1981
;
R. Raven
,
V. Davies
), deposited in
QMB
(
S34327
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is am arbitrary combination of letters.
DIAGNOSIS: This species seems closest to
P. kiola
(see below), but males have a shorter retrolateral tibial apophysis that is situated more dorsally (figs. 804, 805), and females have the anterior spermathecal lobes more widely separated (figs. 806, 807).
MALE: Total length 1.5. Abdominal dorsum variable (uniformly gray, with gray chevrons, or uniformly pale); anterior legs light orange, posterior legs paler. Palpal fe mur distally incrassate; retrolateral tibial apophysis relatively short, situated almost dorsally (fig. 805); embolus long (fig. 804).
Figs. 808–811.
Paralampona kiola
,
new species
.
808.
Left male palp, ventral view.
809.
Same, retrolateral view.
810.
Epigynum, ventral view.
811.
Same, dorsal view.
FEMALE: Total length 2.3. Coloration as in male. Epigynum with narrow median septum (fig. 806); anterior spermathecal lobes widely separated (fig. 807).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
Queensland
:
Frenchville
, 238209S, 1508349E,
Apr. 21–July 18, 1990
,
pitfall
, open forest (
D. Wallace
,
R. Raven
,
QMB
S34318
), 1
?;
Gold Creek
Reservoir
,
Brookfield
, 278309S, 1528559E,
June 23, 1980
, litter (
R. Raven
,
V. Davies
,
QMB
S34319
), 1?, 3/,
Aug. 7, 1980
, litter (
R. Raven
,
QMB
S34333
), 2?, 3/,
Nov. 28– Dec. 16, 1980
, litter, closed forest (
QMB
S34326
), 2/,
Mar. 18, 1981
, litter, closed forest (
R. Raven
,
V. Davies
,
QMB
S34336
), 1?, 2/,
Mar. 23–Apr. 8, 1981
, litter, closed forest (
R. Raven
,
V. Davies
,
QMB
S34328
), 2?, 2/,
Apr. 23–May 13, 1981
, litter (
R. Raven
,
V. Davies
,
QMB
S34329
), 1?, 2/,
June 17–July 3, 1981
, litter (
R. Raven
,
V. Davies
,
QMB
S34335
), 1?, 2/,
Aug. 14, 1881
, litter (
R. Raven
,
V. Davies
,
QMB
S34323
), 1
/;
Mount Coottha
,
Brisbane
, 278289S, 1528589E,
Dec. 1–22, 1979
,
pitfall
(
R. Raven
,
QMB
S34334
), 3/,
Nov. 4, 1996
–
July 4, 1997
,
pitfalls
, eucalypt forest, south slope (
R. Raven
,
QMB
S31370
), 2
?.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from eastern
Queensland
(map 92).