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
Pseudolampona spurgeon
,
new species
Figures 770–773
;
Map 87
TYPE:
Male
holotype
taken in a
pitfall trap
at an elevation of
1100 m
on
Mount Spurgeon
, 168279S, 1458119E,
Queensland
(
Nov. 19, 1997
–
Feb. 8, 1998
;
G. Monteith
,
D. Cook
), deposited in
QMB
(
S43938
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of
P. taroom
in having a distally folded embolus, but can be recognized by the distinctly beaked median apophysis (fig. 770); females differ from those of
P. taroom
in having the anterior spermathecal lobes distinctly demarcated (figs. 772, 773).
MALE: Total length 2.2. Abdominal dorsum with four dark chevrons, two anterior ones large, fused at sides; venter with dark markings only around spinnerets. Retrolateral tibial apophysis small, spikeshaped (fig. 771); embolus strong, folded at midlength, median apophysis short, beaked (fig. 770).
FEMALE: Total length 2.3. Coloration as in male. Epigynal openings at about half of epigynal length (fig. 772), spermathecae with distinctly demarcated anterior lobes (fig. 773).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
Queensland
:
Mount Windsor Tableland, Whypalla, 168139S, 1448599E, summer 1992–1993, pitfalls, elev.
1120 m
(S. Burnett, QMB
S22660
, 24403, 30450, 33168, 33205), 9?, 1/.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from northeastern
Queensland
.