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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journal article
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Desognaphosa pershouse
,
new species
Figures 227–230
;
Map 13
TYPES: Female
holotype
and male
allotype
taken in a Berlese sample of sieved rainforest
Figs. 219–222.
Desognaphosa malbon
,
new species
.
219.
Left male palp, ventral view.
220.
Same, retrolateral view.
221.
Epigynum, ventral view.
222.
Same, dorsal view.
litter from an elevation of
930 m
on
Mount Pershouse
,
Kirrama Range
, 18
°
12
̍
S, 145
°
45
̍
E,
Queensland
(
Dec. 12, 1986
;
G. Monteith
,
G. Thompson
), deposited in
QMB
(
S28741
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the relatively long retrolateral tibial apophysis, which has two subdistal protuberances (fig. 228), females by the relatively long median epigynal ducts, which have a pair of anterior protuberances (fig. 230).
MALE: Total length 5.2. Coloration as in
D. malbon
. Leg spination: tibiae: III v1p1p 2; IV v222, r011; metatarsi: III v201p; IV v222, r010. Retrolateral tibial apophysis relatively long, with two subdistal protuberances, paracymbial apophysis oblique (fig. 228); tip of terminal apophysis directed obliquely, retroventrally (fig. 227).
FEMALE: Total length 6.2. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: tibiae: III v222; IV v222, r011; metatarsi: III v202; IV v2 22, r010. Anterior epigynal margin wide (fig. 229); median epigynal ducts very long, with anterior protuberances (fig. 230).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
Queensland
:
Mount Pershouse
,
Kirrama Range
, 18
°
12
̍
S, 145
°
45
̍
E,
Dec. 12, 1986
, Berlese, sieved rainforest litter, elev.
930 m
(
G. Monteith
,
G. Thompson
,
QMB
S28735
),
1♀
;
15 km
W Kennedy
,
Kirrama State Forest
, 18
°
13
̍
S, 145
°
48
̍
E,
May 8, 1983
, Berlese, sieved rainforest litter, elev.
800 m
(
D. Yeates
,
QMB
S28749
),
1♀
.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from northeastern
Queensland
(map 13).