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
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Neato barrine
,
new species
Figures 109–112
;
Map 7
TYPE: Male
holotype
taken from bark, fungi, and litter in a rainforest at an elevation of
750 m
at
Lake Barrine
,
Atherton
, 17
°
16
̍
S, 145
°
38
̍
E,
Queensland
(
July 29, 1982
;
S. and J. Peck
), deposited in
QMB
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the two dorsal projections on the retrolateral tibial apophysis and the thumbshaped distal portion of the conductor (figs. 109, 110), females by the small, oval epigynal atrium (fig. 111) and the anteriorly widened lateral epigynal ducts (fig. 112).
MALE: Total length 3.3. Carapace as in
N. walli
, abdominal dorsum gray, posterior half marked with six pairs of paramedian white spots, sides light gray, venter white; legs as in
N. kioloa
except femora without dorsal stripes. Chelicerae inclined, endites relatively long. Leg spination: tibiae: III v001p; IV v000; metatarsi III p001. Tarsal cracking as in
N. walli
. Retrolateral tibial apophysis with two dorsal projections (fig. 110); embolus arched distally, conductor with long, thumbshaped distal projection (fig. 109).
FEMALE: Total length 3.3. Carapace as in
N. walli
, abdominal dorsum gray, posterior half with only faint traces of two pairs of paramedian white spots, sides light gray, venter white; legs with femora, distal tips of patellae, tibiae, and fourth metatarsi brown, other segments light orange. Chelicerae inclined, endites relatively long. Leg spination: tibiae III v1p01p; IV v1p02; metatarsi IV v01p2. Epigynal atrium relatively small, oval, containing triangular septum (fig. 111); spermathecae bipartite, posterior portion elevated relative to anterior, lateral ducts widened anteriorly (fig. 112).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
Queensland
:
Mount Molloy, 16
°
44
̍
S, 145
°
19
̍
E, summer 1992–1993, pitfall, riparian/woodland, elev.
400 m
(S. Barnett, QMB
S30454
),
1♀
.
Figs. 113–116. 113, 114.
Neato arid
,
new species
. 115, 116.
Meedo flinders
,
new species
.
113.
Left male palp, ventral view.
114.
Same, retrolateral view.
115.
Epigynum, ventral view.
116.
Same, dorsal view.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from northeastern
Queensland
(map 7).