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
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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
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Pseudolampona binnowee
,
new species
Figures 778–781
;
Map 88
TYPE: Male
holotype
taken in pitfall trap on Binnowee Drive, Blue Mountains National Park, 338409S, 1508289E,
New South Wales
(
Aug. 15, 1996
), deposited in
AMS
(KS55292).
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: This species seems closest to
P. kroombit
, but males have a shorter embolus, shorter median apophysis, and narrower retrolateral tibial apophysis (figs. 778, 779) and females have more rounded spermathecae (figs. 780, 781).
MALE: Total length 2.5. Abdominal dorsum with four dark, transverse stripes, each extended posteriorly on sides of abdomen, middle two stripes extended anteriorly at middle; venter as
P. warrandyte
. Retrolateral tibial apophysis short, narrow (fig. 779); embolus short, median apophysis short, hooked (fig. 778).
FEMALE: Total length 3.8. Coloration as in male. Epigynum short, with small lateral pockets, hood narrow (fig. 780); spermathecae rounded, widely separated, with long, thumbshaped median lobes (fig. 781).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
New South Wales
:
Ridge Street, Woodford, 338449S, 1508299E,
Sept. 30–Oct. 4, 1996
, pitfalls (AMS KS51713, 55307), 2/.
Map 88. Records of
Pseudolampona kroombit
,
new species
(circles) and
P. binnowee
,
new species
(squares).
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the Blue Mountains region of
New South Wales
(map 88).