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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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
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Neato arid
,
new species
Figures 113, 114
;
Map 8
TYPE:
Male
holotype
taken in
pitfall
trap on
Mount Ragged
,
Cape Arid National Park
, 33
°
26
̍
S, 123
°
28
̍
E,
Western Australia
(
May 1, 1996
;
S. Barrett
), deposited in
WAM
(96/ 1587)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the short embolus, which does not reach the tip of the palpal bulb (fig. 113).
MALE: Total length 2.9. Carapace as in
N. walli
; abdominal dorsum dark gray, with scattered tiny white spots posteriorly, venter light gray; coxae and femora light yellow, femora and distal portions of patellae, tibiae, and metatarsi dark gray, proximal portions of patellae, tibiae, and metatarsi, and all of tarsi, yellow. Chelicerae inclined, endites relatively long. Leg spination: tibiae III v001p; metatarsi III, IV p001. Tarsal cracking as in
N. walli
. Retrolateral tibial apophysis ventrally excavated, tip directed distally (fig. 114); tegulum with distinct retrolateral projection, embolus short, not extending full length of bulb, conductor with sharply point ed tip (fig. 113).
FEMALE: Unknown.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
Western Australia
:
Thumb Peak, Fitzgerald River National Park, 34
°
02
̍
S, 119
°
43
̍
E,
Apr. 27, 1996
, pitfall (S. Barrett, WAM 96/1588– 1590), 33.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from southwestern
Australia
(map 8).