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 1 1 http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0090%282002%29271%3C0001%3AAROTAG%3E2.0.CO%3B2 journal article 10.1206/0003-0090(2002)271<0001:AROTAG>2.0.CO;2 0003-0090 5396112 Fissarena laverton , new species Figures 521–524 ; Map 40 TYPE: Female holotype taken in pitfall trap 39 km E of Laverton , 28 ° 28 ̍ S, 122 ° 50 ̍ E, Western Australia ( Oct. 23–25, 1990 ; E. Pianka ), deposited in WAM (99/519) . ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality. DIAGNOSIS: Males and females have not been collected together, but are matched here on the basis of their respective similarities to those of F. woodleigh . Males can be distinguished by the smaller tip of the palpal conductor (fig. 521), females by the anteriorly narrowed epigynal atrium (fig. 523). MALE: Total length 10. Coloration as in F. castanea . Leg spination: femora III p1­1­0, r0­1­0; tibiae: III p0­0­0, r0­1­0; IV d1­1­0, p1­0­1; metatarsi: II v2­0­0; III p1­0­0, r1­0­ 0; IV p1­0­0, r1­2­0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis expanded distally (fig. 522); retrolateral edge of median apophysis unsclerotized (fig. 521). FEMALE: Total length 10. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: femora: I p1­1­1, r0­1­ 1; II r0­1­0; III p1­1­0, r0­1­0; IV p1­1­0, r0­ 0­0; tibiae: III p1­0­0, r0­1­1; metatarsi: I v2­ 1p­0; II 2­2­0; III p0­1­0; IV p1­0­0. Epi­ gynal atrium narrowed anteriorly (fig. 523); ducts extending almost to anterior edge of epigynum (fig. 524). OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: South Australia : 8.1 km WNW Beal Hill , 26 ° 36 ̍ S, 137 ° 47 ̍ E, Sept. 14–18, 1998 , pitfall , dune, canegrass ( SAM N1999 /89), 13 ; 35.1 km N Miandana Waterhole , 26 ° 58 ̍ S, 137 ° 31 ̍ E, Sept. 9–14, 1998 , pitfall , dune, canegrass ( SAM N1999 /86–88), 33 ; 6.6 km WNW Mount Lindsay , 27 ° 04 ̍ S, 129 ° 49 ̍ E, Oct. 16– 20, 1996 , pitfall , sand plain ( SAM N1999 / 93), 13 ; ca. 3 km N Olympic Dam Mine , Roxby Downs , 30 ° 24 ̍ S, 136 ° 52 ̍ E, 1999, pitfall (K. Lamb , SAM N1999 /92), 13 ; Roxby Downs , 30 ° 25 ̍ S, 136 ° 52 ̍ E, Feb. 1996 , pitfall ( J. Read , SAM N1999 /90, 91), 23 ; Simpson Desert, N edge Lake Eyre National Park , between Warburton and Kallakoopah Creeks , 27 ° 48 ̍ S, 137 ° 25 ̍ E, mid Sept. 1995 ( T. Payne , WAM 99 /521), 13 ; 53.5 km E Vokes Hill , Great Victoria Desert , 28 ° 32 ̍ S, 131 ° 14 ̍ E, Oct. 8, 1976 , burning triodia tussock ( D. Lee , SAM N1999 /40), 1♀ . Western Australia : 3 km NNE Buningonia Spring , 31 ° 26 ̍ S, 123 ° 32 ̍ E, Nov. 18–25, 1978 (T. Houston , WAM 99 /520), 13 ; 39 km E Laverton , 28 ° 28 ̍ S, 122 ° 50 ̍ E, Dec. 8–10, 1990 , pitfall (E. Pianka , WAM 99 /525), 1♀ ; 10 km NE Old Kirgella Rocks Homestead , 30 ° 00 ̍ S, 122 ° 57 ̍ E, Aug. 5, 1993 (M. Peterson , WAM 99 /527), 1♀ ; 7–8 km WNW Point Salvation , 28 ° 12 ̍ S, 123 ° 36 ̍ E, Sept. 29–30, 1990 , pitfall ( E. Pianka , WAM 99 /522), 1♀ , Sept.–Oct. 1998 , dry pitfalls (D. King , E. Pianka , WAM 99 /523, 524), 2♀ ; Woodline , 31 ° 57 ̍ S, 122 ° 24 ̍ E, Apr. 1981 , Eucalyptus salmonophloia woodland ( W. Humphreys , WAM 99 / 526), 1♀ . Map 40. Records of Fissarena barlee , new species (circles), F. woodleigh , new species (squares), F. laverton , new species (stars), and F. longipes (Hogg) (cross). Figs. 517–520. Fissarena woodleigh , new species . 517. Left male palp, ventral view. 518. Same, retrolateral view. 519. Epigynum, ventral view. 520. Same, dorsal view. DISTRIBUTION: Western and South Australia (map 40).