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 1 328 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 Lamponella wombat , new species Figures 376, 377 ; Map 43 TYPE: Male holotype taken at an elevation of 750 m at Wombat Creek , 6 km NE Piccadilly Circus , 358199S, 1488519E, Australian Capital Territory ( June 1985 ; T. Weir , J. Lawrence , M. Johnson ), deposited in QMB . ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality. DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the small median apophysis almost superimposed on the embolus (fig. 376). MALE: Total length 3.1. Abdominal dorsum gray, with only vague indications of pair of anterior pale spots; legs unmarked. Palpal femur short, straight, unmodified; retrolateral tibial apophysis short, thumb­shaped (fig. 377); tegulum moderately expanded, reaching to about one­fourth of tibial length; tip of embolus situated medially, overlapped in ventral view by small median apophysis (fig. 376). Map 43. Records of Lamponella wombat , new species (circles) and L. brookfield , new species (squares). Figs. 380–383. Lamponella brookfield , new species . 380. Left male palp, ventral view. 381. Same, retrolateral view. 382. Epigynum, ventral view. 383. Same, dorsal view. FEMALE: Unknown. OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Australian Capital Territory : Blundells Creek , 3 km E Piccadilly Circus , 358229S, 1488509E, Jan. 1985 , elev. 850 m ( T. Weir , J. Lawrence , M. Johnson , QMB ), 1 ?; Piccadilly Circus , 358229S, 1488489E, Feb. 1984 , elev. 1240 m ( J. Lawrence , T. Weir , M. Johnson , QMB ), 1 ?; Wombat Creek , 6 km NE Piccadilly Circus , 358199S, 1488519E, Mar. 1984 –1985, elev. 750 m ( T. Weir , J. Lawrence , M. Johnson , QMB ), 2?, Aug.–Sept. 1985 , elev. 750 m ( T. Weir , J. Lawrence , M. Johnson , QMB ), 2 ?. DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the Australian Capital Territory (map 43).