A Revision Of The Australasian Ground Spiders Of The Families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, And Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea)
Author
PLATNICK, NORMAN I.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2002
2002-09-19
2002
271
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0090%282002%29271%3C0001%3AAROTAG%3E2.0.CO%3B2
journal article
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Trachyspina daunton
,
new species
Figures 654–657
TYPE:
Male
holotype
taken indoors at
Daunton
, via
Ilfracombe
, 23
°
16
̍
S, 144
°
49
̍
E,
Queensland
(
Apr. 29, 1998
;
E. McKenzie
), deposited in
QMB
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be distinguished from those of
T. capensis
and
T. mundaring
by the much narrower median apophysis (fig. 654); females resemble those of
T. chillimookoo
but have wider epigynal ducts (fig. 657).
MALE: Total length 7.5. Coloration as in
T. capensis
except carapace light red. Leg spination: femur IV d101; patellae III, IV d001; tibiae: I, II v1p1p0; III d001; IV d001, p100; metatarsi: II v21p2; III v1p 00; IV v1p1p0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis represented by pair of slight denticles (fig. 655); median apophysis narrow, distally hooked (fig. 654).
FEMALE: Total length 6.9. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: femur IV d101; tibiae: I v1p22; II v1p1p2; IV d100; metatarsi: II v222; III v200; IV v21p0, r10 0. Epigynal atrium wide, semicircular (fig. 656); ducts wide, wider posteriorly than anteriorly (fig. 657).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
Queensland
:
13.5 km N Bogantungan, 23
°
32
̍
S, 147
°
18
̍
E,
Oct. 26–Dec. 17, 2000
, pitfall, ironbark woodland, elev.
880 m
(D. Cook, G. Monteith, QMB
S55079
),
2♀
.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from southcentral
Queensland
, and the first member of the genus to be found in eastern
Australia
.