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 ooldea
,
new species
Figures 198–201
;
Map 21
TYPE:
Female
holotype
from
Ooldea
, 308279S, 1318509E,
South Australia
(
July 1921
;
J. Rushaw
), deposited in
NMV
(
K3431
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Males and females have not been taken together and may be mismatched, but both resemble the preceding three spe cies; males differ in having a low, rounded subbasal protuberance on the palpal femur (fig. 199), females in having a much shorter epigynal midpiece (fig. 200).
MALE: Total length 7.6. Coloration as in
L. cylindrata
but with paired white abdominal stripes reduced to spots. Palpal femur with sinuously bulging ventral protuberance; retrolateral tibial apophysis dorsally angular, bearing ventral tooth (fig. 199); tegulum globose, extending to about onethird of tibial length; embolar tip long, abruptly narrowed, prolaterally situated (fig. 198).
FEMALE: Total length 8.0. Coloration as in male. Epigynal midpiece very short, greatly widened anteriorly, lateral margins very short, rounded (fig. 200); anterior portion of spermathecae bulbous (fig. 201).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
Victoria
:
McLellands Road, 0.1 km N Rathbones Road, 368099S, 1458149E,
July 18–23, 1994
, pitfall (S. Hinkley, P. Lillywhite, G. Milledge, NMVS), 1?
.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from southern
South Australia
and
Victoria
(map 21).