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
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).