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
Longepi durin
,
new species
Figures 676, 677
;
Map 83
TYPE:
Male
holotype
from
Durokoppin Nature Reserve
, 318309S, 1178449E,
Western Australia
(
Nov. 3–14, 1989
;
D. Mitchell
), deposited in
WAM
(96/718)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition, formed by contraction from the
type
locality, in honor of W. D. Platnick.
DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the small, obliquely oriented, and distally hooked retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 677). Discovery of the female could show that this enigmatic species is misplaced in
Longepi
; it could conceivably represent the sister group of the known
Prionosternum
species
instead.
MALE: Total length 4.1. Abdominal venter gray, with two longitudinal paramedian rows of small, orange, circular sclerites. Leg spination: tibia IV r000; metatarsus IV v1p0 o0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis relatively small, obliquely oriented, hooked at tip (fig. 677); terminal apophysis moderately enlarged, covering prodistal quarter of bulb area (fig. 676).
FEMALE: Unknown.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from
Western Australia
(map 83).