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
Lampona allyn
,
new species
Figures 166–169
;
Map 16
TYPE: Female
holotype
taken in pitfall trap at an elevation of
970 m
along Mount Allyn Road, adjacent to Mount Allyn Forest Park,
900 m
from junction of Mount Allyn Lookout Road, Chichester State Forest, 328079S, 1518259E,
New South Wales
(
Feb. 4–Apr. 9, 1993
, M. Gray, G. Cassis), deposited in
AMS
(KS40486).
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: This species resembles other members of the
pusilla
group in the shape of the male retrolateral tibial apophysis and epi gynum, but can be distinguished in males by the more dorsally situated and directed retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 167) and in females by the broad posterior portion of the spermathecae (fig. 169).
MALE: Total length 5.2. Abdominal dorsum with median row of dark markings separated by white areas from dark rows of markings on side of abdomen; legs with patellae lighter than other segments, posterior tibiae with proximal and distal dark rings. Palpal femur with long, low ventral protuberance bearing long, stiff setae; retrolateral tibial apophysis long, narrow, straight, situated near dorsal side of segment (fig. 167); tegulum relatively small, scarcely protruding past base of tarsus; embolar base almost fused to tegulum (fig. 166).
FEMALE: Total length 6.5. Coloration as in male except abdominal dorsum with few white paramedian markings. Epigynum excavate, vshaped median plate with elevated anterior margins (fig. 168); posterior portion of spermathecae wide, distal portion reduced to tiny lobe (fig. 169).
Figs. 166–169.
Lampona allyn
,
new species
.
166.
Left male palp, ventral view.
167.
Same, retrolateral view.
168.
Epigynum, ventral view.
169.
Same, dorsal view.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
New South Wales
:
Bull Gully
near junction of
Bull Gully
and
Bull Ridge Roads
,
Stewarts Brook State Forest
, 318579S, 1518229E,
Feb. 4–Apr. 9, 1993
,
pitfall
, elev.
1290 m
(
M. Gray
,
G. Cassis
,
AMS
KS40483
), 1
?;
Carey’s Park
,
Barrington Tops
, 328009S, 1518289E,
Nov. 1, 1957
, moss, elev.
5064 ft
(
F. Perkins
,
OMD
), 1
/;
Mount Allyn
, near
Barrington Tops
, 328069S, 1518269E,
Sept. 1993
, bark scraped from
Nothofagus
trunks, temperate rainforest (
G. Hunt
,
AMS
KS44099
), 2
?.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from
New South Wales
(map 16).