Revisions of Australian ground-hunting spiders VI: five new stripe-less miturgid genera and 48 new species (Miturgidae: Miturginae)
Author
Raven, Robert J.
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School of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba, 4350, Queensland, Australia RobertJRaven @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8532 - 245 X & School of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba, 4350, Queensland, Australia RobertJRaven @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8532 - 245 X & Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia
aven@gmail.com
Author
Hebron, Wendy
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School of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba, 4350, Queensland, Australia RobertJRaven @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8532 - 245 X & Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia & Wendy. Hebron @ qm. qld. gov. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4156 - 6302
aven@gmail.com
Author
Williams, Kylie
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School of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba, 4350, Queensland, Australia RobertJRaven @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8532 - 245 X & Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia & School of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba, 4350, Queensland, Australia RobertJRaven @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8532 - 245 X & kylie. w 50 @ outlook. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2512 - 642 X Corresponding author & School of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba, 4350, Queensland, Australia RobertJRaven @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8532 - 245 X
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-10-24
5358
1
1
117
https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5358.1.1/52093
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5358.1.1
1175-5334
10151882
1A17A242-2E91-4F43-9E5D-063F8C0CBE72
Miturgopelma rixi
sp. nov.
Fig. 51
Diagnosis.
Males differ from those of
Miturgopelma harveyi
sp. nov.
in the smaller median apophysis with a basal lobe, and the RTA being deeply bifid dorsally. Female unknown.
Etymology.
The species epithet is a patronym in honour of Dr Michael Rix, in recognition for the many Western Australian species he has described.
Type Material.
Western Australia
: male
holotype
,
Cocanarup Timber Reserve
, 33°38”S 119°54”E,
Nov 1993
,
G. Harold
,
Salmon
gum woodland,
WAM 98
/747.
Description.
Male,
holotype
WAM98/747
Carapace 3.08 long, 2.60 wide. Opisthosoma 3.32 long, 2.60 wide. Total, 6.68.
I: 3.12, 1.28, 2.72, 2.72, 1.92, 11.76. II: 2.72, 1.20, 2.56, 2.80, 1.60, 10.88. III: 3.04, 1.04, 2.24, 3.12, 1.68, 11.12. IV: 4.00, 1.20, 2.88, 4.24, 1.68, 14.00. Palp: 1.28, 0.64, 0.64, -, 1.28, 3.84.
Colour: Carapace with dark shell-like areas reduced to 3 paired dark areas, caput laterally defined by dark lines; opisthosoma, dorsally laterally dark separated from dark median stripe by narrow pallid zone; ventrally mottled lightly but uniformly.
Eyes: All similar, small; ALE clearly smallest. Legs moderately long.
Palp: tibia and patella similar sized; cymbium with two large spines on edge and two midbasally mixed with uniform cover of hairs and long spine-like bristles with slight ovoid scopula; retrobasally with unmodified, narrow edge; apex of ventral lobe short, rounded; ventral lobe short, blunt; ventral lobe short blunt; dorsal lobe apically widely and deeply bifurcate, roughly triangular; RTA distal; short, directed laterally; two plates sandwiching unsclerotised zone; base of ventral lobe with triangular process; ventral lobe short, blunt; dorsal lobe apically widely and deeply bifurcate, roughly triangular; embolus central, directed transversely prolateral.
Distribution.
Known only from Cocanarup, southwestern
Western Australia
.