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
Centrothele kuranda
,
new species
Figures 446–449
;
Map 50
TYPES:
Female
holotype
and male
allotype
taken in rainforest on
Black
Mountain
Road
,
Kuranda
, 168499S, 1458389E,
Queensland
(
July 1976
;
P. Filewood
), deposited in
QMB
(
S26505
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Males have a scarcely evident dorsal tibial apophysis (fig. 447) and a long embolus that is narrow even at its base (fig. 446); females have a long, parallelsided epigynal atrium and long, narrow epigynal midpiece (fig. 448).
MALE: Total length 10.4. Abdominal dorsum gray, with pair of narrow transverse white stripes at about half its length, stripes extending around sides, venter gray with scattered small orange sclerotizations; anterior coxae, trochanters, and femoral bases darkened, almost red. Leg spination: tibiae: III p011, v1p22, r011; IV v1p22, r0 01; metatarsus IV r010. Retrolateral tibial apophysis moderate in length, expanded at base on both dorsal and ventral sides, dorsal apophysis scarcely evident (fig. 447); embolus originating at retrolateral side of bulb, narrow throughout its length; embolar apophysis almost straight; tegular apophysis bulging; median apophysis almost triangular (fig. 446).
FEMALE: Total length 11.0. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: tibiae: III r011; IV p011; metatarsus IV r010. Epigynal hood wide, semicircular; epigynal atrium long, with parallel sides, midpiece long, narrow (fig. 448); epigynal ducts enlarged, dorsal most ducts making almost full circle (fig. 449).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
Queensland
:
Davies Creek, Copperfield Road, near Cairns, 168559S, 1458329E,
May 13, 1984
,
186 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 245
Figs. 446–449.
Centrothele kuranda
,
new species
.
446.
Left male palp, ventral view.
447.
Same, retrolateral view.
448.
Epigynum, ventral view.
449.
Same, dorsal view.
under rocks in webbed burrow (
A. Dennis
,
QMB
), 1
/;
Kirrama Forest
, 188099S, 1458379E,
May 1, 1981
, rainforest (
B. Ramsay
,
QMB
S34346
), 1
?.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from northern
Queensland
(map 50).