A Revision of Storenosoma Hogg and Description of a New Genus, Oztira (Araneae: Amaurobiidae)
Author
Milledge, G. A.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.63.2011.1579
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Oztira summa
(Davies)
new combination
Figs 6d
,
12a–d
,
26
Otira summa
Davies, 1986: 237–8
, figs 2–8, 27–30, 38–39.
Type material examined
.
HOLOTYPE
♀
,
Bellenden Ker Range
, [
17°12'S
145°51'E
],
Queensland
,
1–7 Nov 1981
,
Earthwatch
/
Queensland
Museum Expedition
, litter, mossy microphyll forest,
1560 m
, (S 1365) (
QM
)
.
PARATYPES
:
1♂
, Same data as holotype except
25–31 Oct 1981
(S 1366)
.
1♂
, same data except
17–24 Oct 1981
(S 1367)
(both QM).
Fig. 10.
Oztira aquilonaria
. (a–b)
right male palp (S1371):
(a)
ventral,
(b)
RTA, retrolateral.
(c–d)
female genitalia:
(c)
epigynum, ventral (S1371);
(d)
internal (S1377). Scale lines 0.1 mm.
Fig. 11.
Oztira kroombit
. (a–c)
male palp (
S30777
):
(a)
ventral;
(b)
RTA, retrolateral; cymbium and RTA, dorsolateral.
(d–e)
female genitalia:
(d)
epigynum, ventral (
S30752
);
(e)
internal (
S30778
). Scale lines 0.25 mm.
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Storenosoma
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Fig. 12.
Oztira summa
. (a–b)
male palp (
S20783
):
(a)
ventral;
(b)
RTA, retrolateral.
(c–d)
female genitalia (S1365):
(c)
epigynum, ventral;
(d)
internal. Scale lines
0.25 mm
.
Other material examined
.
QUEENSLAND
:
1♂
, Bellenden Ker summit,
17°16'S
145°52'E
,
28 Aug–8 Oct 1991
, GBM &
Janetzki
(
S20783
)
.
1♀
,
Bellenden Ker Range Summit TV Stn.
,
Oct–Dec 1982
, 1560 m,
S. Montague
, rainforest (
S 30776
) (both QM)
.
Diagnosis
. Can be separated from
Oz. affinis
by the tarsal rod being elongate with keyhole shaped opening (
Fig. 6d
and Davies, 1986; figs 28 & 38), by the male palpal trochanter having a single stridulatory spine and by the female epigynum having fused gonopore openings (
Fig. 12c–d
); from
Oz. kroombit
by the male cymbium lacking apophyses and the gonopore openings on the female epigynum being fused (
Fig. 12c–d
); from
Oz. aquilonaria
by the form of the MA and RTA, which lacks a prominent pointed dorsal apophysis, of the male palp (
Fig. 12a–b
) and by the posterior margin of the fused sclerotized gonopore openings of the female epigynum being incised (
Fig. 12c
).
Description
.
Male
. Measurements: BL 4.0, CL 2.25, CW 1.50, PLE 0.27, PME 0.15 (QM, S 1366).
Female
. Measurements: BL 4.25, CL 2.25, CW 1.40, PLE 0.30, PME 0.17 (QM, S1365). For morphological description see species diagnosis and generic description.
Distribution
. Known only from the summit of Mt Bellenden Ker in North East
Queensland
. (
Fig. 26
).
Remarks
. The view of the RTA illustrated by Davies (1986, fig. 7) is dorsal rather than retrolateral as stated.