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
1
328
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
Lamponicta cobon
,
new species
Figures 326–329
;
Map 39
TYPE:
Male
holotype
taken in a
midslope pitfall trap
at
Cobon
South Coupe
,
Victoria
, 378259S, 1488569E (
Apr. 6–14, 1992
;
R. Coy
), deposited in
NMV
(
K3598
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: With the characters of the genus, palp as in figures 326 and 327, and epigynum as in figures 328 and 329.
MALE: Total length 6.4. Abdominal dorsum dark gray, with transverse white band at about half its length, band wider at sides than at middle; anterior legs darkened but without distinct markings. Palpal femur short, thick, sinuous when viewed dorsoventrally; tibia without retrolateral apophysis, with distal excavation (fig. 327); tegulum oval, sperm duct confined to distal half, greatly narrowed near midline (fig. 326).
FEMALE: Total length 7.7. Abdominal dorsum without distinct transverse white band, with small, roughly pentagonal orange scu tum near anterior edge. Epigynum with long, vshaped posteromedian septum (fig. 328); spermathecae each with two bulbous lobes (fig. 329).
Figs. 326–329.
Lamponicta cobon
,
new species
.
326.
Left male palp, ventral view.
327.
Same, retrolateral view.
328.
Epigynum, ventral view.
329.
Same, dorsal view.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
New South Wales
:
junction,
Tubrabucca
and
Omadale Brook Roads
,
Stewarts Brook State Forest
, 318559S, 1518249E,
Nov. 22–23, 1996
, elev.
1360 m
(
N. Platnick
,
R. Raven
,
V. Ovtsharenko
,
K. Catley
,
AMNH
), 1?.
Victoria
:
Blackwood Loam Creek
, 378299S, 1448199E,
Sept. 10, 1977
, under bark (
Parnaby
,
AMS
KS44475
), 1
/;
Cobon
South Coupe
, 378259S, 1488579E,
Nov. 27–28, 1996
, elev.
700 m
(
N. Platnick
,
R. Raven
,
V. Ovtsharenko
,
K. Catley
,
AMNH
), 1
/.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from
New South Wales
and
Victoria
(map 39).