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
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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
Notsodipus magdala
,
new species
Figures 670–673
;
Map 75
TYPE:
Male
holotype
from
East Magdala Woodland
,
Jabiru
, 148589S, 1348079E,
Northern Territory
(
Apr. 2, 1982
; Morton), deposited in
SAM
(
N1997
/103)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: This species resembles
N. marun
in having a folded median prong of the terminal apophysis of the male palp and a relatively large epigynal atrium. Males can be distinguished by the shape of the lateral prong of the terminal apophysis (fig. 670), females by the wide epigynal septum (fig. 672).
MALE: Total length 4.0. Abdominal dorsum with large pair of pale, anterior spots and few pale posterior chevrons showing through scutum, venter with weak, narrow, rectangular orange sclerite overlaying two longitudinal rows of small, orange, circular sclerites. Leg spination typical for genus. Retrolateral tibial apophysis long, narrowed distally and subbasally (fig. 671); median prong of terminal apophysis sharply curved near base, distally folded, lateral prong with three cusps (fig. 670).
FEMALE: Total length 3.6. Coloration as in male except venter without rectangular scler ite. Leg spination typical for genus. Epigynal atrium large, occupying about half of epigynal length, with wide median septum (fig. 672); median spermathecal ducts well separated throughout most of their length (fig. 673).
Figs. 674–677. 674, 675.
Notsodipus broadwater
,
new species
. 676, 677.
Longepi durin
,
new species
.
674, 676.
Left male palp, ventral view.
675, 677.
Same, retrolateral view.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
Northern Territory
:
East Point
, 128259S, 1308499E,
May 1–31, 1975
(
R. Pengilley
,
MNT
T023
), 1
/;
Thorak
,
Darwin
, 128289S, 1308509E,
Apr. 1996
,
pitfall
, savanna (
T. Churchill
,
CSID
), 2
?.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the
Northern Territory
(map 75).