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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Desognaphosa tyson
,
new species
Figures 231–234
;
Map 15
TYPE:
Female
holotype
taken in a
Berlese
sample of sieved rainforest litter from an elevation of
650 m
on
Mount Tyson
,
2 km
W of Tully
, 17
°
55
̍
S, 145
°
54
̍
E,
Queensland
(
May 7, 1983
;
D. Yeates
), deposited in
QMB
(
S26693
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
Figs. 223–226.
Desognaphosa kirrama
,
new species
.
223.
Left male palp, ventral view.
224.
Same, retrolateral view.
225.
Epigynum, ventral view.
226.
Same, dorsal view.
DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of
D. pershouse
but have a smaller retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 232) and a subdistal protuberance on the tip of the embolus (fig. 231); females resemble those of
D. kirrama
but have much wider epigynal openings (fig. 233) and anteriorly widened median ducts (fig. 234).
MALE: Total length 5.3. Coloration as in
D. malbon
. Leg spination: tibiae: III v21p 2; IV v222, r011; metatarsi: III v202; IV p010, v222, r010. Retrolateral tibial apophysis short, triangular, with hooked tip, paracymbial apophysis arched at middle, expanded at tip (fig. 232); embolus with subdistal, prolaterally directed protuberance (fig. 231).
FEMALE: Total length 7.7. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: tibiae: III v21p2; IV v21p2, r011; metatarsi: III v202; IV v2 22, r010. Epigynum with paired, almost circular openings extending laterally beyond anterior margins (fig. 233); median ducts anteriorly expanded, occupying most of epigynal width (fig. 234).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
Queensland
:
Upper Boulder Creek, via Tully, 17
°
50
̍
S, 145
°
54
̍
E,
Oct. 26, 1983
, rainforest, pyrethrum knockdown (G. Monteith, D. Yeates, G. Thompson, QMB
S26699
), 13.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from northeastern
Queensland
(map 15).