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
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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
Lampona gosford
,
new species
Figures 234–237
;
Map 26
TYPE:
Female
holotype
from
Gosford
, 338269S, 1518209E,
New South Wales
(
Oct. 12, 1977
;
R. Mascord
), deposited in
AMS
(
KS31932
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: The tentatively associated males resemble those of
L. fife
in having a long, sinuous palpal femur and a triangular, setose retrolateral tibial apophysis, but differ in having that apophysis and the embolar tip shorter (figs. 234, 235). Females can easily be recognized by the elongate epigynum with a distinct anterior margin and clubshaped spermathecae (figs. 236, 237).
MALE: Total length 7.6. Abdominal dorsum with median pair of white stripes fused medially into wshaped markings; basal portion of anterior femora greatly darkened. Palpal femur long, sinuous, darkened; retrolateral tibial apophysis triangular, setose, relatively small (fig. 235); tegulum globose, extending to half of tibial length; conductor not quite covering prolateral side of embolus (fig. 234).
FEMALE: Total length 11.5. Abdominal dorsum with median pair of white stripes not quite fused medially; anterior femora completely darkened. Epigynum long, with distinct anterior margin, openings at about onethird of length (fig. 236); spermathecae tripartite, clubshaped (fig. 237).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
New South Wales
:
Wongawilli, 348299S, 1508469E,
Aug. 13, 1966
(R. Mascord, AMS KS31933), 3/.
Victoria
:
Mitta Mitta River,
5 km
N Omeo, 378069S, 1478369E,
Feb. 28, 1993
(G. Milledge, NMV K3671), 1?.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from
New South Wales
and
Victoria
(map 26).