Revisions of Australian ground-hunting spiders VI: five new stripe-less miturgid genera and 48 new species (Miturgidae: Miturginae)
Author
Raven, Robert J.
0000-0002-8532-245X
School of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba, 4350, Queensland, Australia RobertJRaven @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8532 - 245 X & School of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba, 4350, Queensland, Australia RobertJRaven @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8532 - 245 X & Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia
aven@gmail.com
Author
Hebron, Wendy
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School of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba, 4350, Queensland, Australia RobertJRaven @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8532 - 245 X & Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia & Wendy. Hebron @ qm. qld. gov. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4156 - 6302
aven@gmail.com
Author
Williams, Kylie
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School of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba, 4350, Queensland, Australia RobertJRaven @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8532 - 245 X & Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia & School of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba, 4350, Queensland, Australia RobertJRaven @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8532 - 245 X & kylie. w 50 @ outlook. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2512 - 642 X Corresponding author & School of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba, 4350, Queensland, Australia RobertJRaven @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8532 - 245 X
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-10-24
5358
1
1
117
https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5358.1.1/52093
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5358.1.1
1175-5334
10151882
1A17A242-2E91-4F43-9E5D-063F8C0CBE72
Miturgopelma couperi
sp. nov.
Fig. 26
Diagnosis.
Males differ from those of
Miturgopelma australiensis
by the fluted tip of the median apophysis (
Fig. 26a
). Female unknown.
Etymology.
The species epithet is in honour of herpetologist and spider collector, Patrick Couper,
Queensland
Museum.
Type material.
Western Australia
: male
holotype
,
7–8 km
. WNW of
Point Salvation
, 28°12”S 123°36”E,
1–3 Dec 1990
, E.
R
.
Pianka
,
pitfall trap
,
WAM
T74061
.
Description.
Male,
holotype
WAM T74061
Carapace 3.91 long, 3.21 wide. Opisthosoma 3.80 long, 2.83 wide. Total length, 7.7.
I: 5.38; 2.00; 4.63; 4.50; 2.50; 19.00. II: 4.13; 1.88; 4.25; 5.00; 3.00; 18.25. III: 5.00; 1.63; 4.25; 5.38; 3.13; 19.38. IV: 6.38; 1.75; 5.25; 6.75; -; 20.13. Palp: 1.75; 0.50; 0.63; -; 2.71; 5.00.
Colour: Carapace with caput dark with dark line and dark scallops laterally on thorax; opisthosoma, dorsally mottled orange to red brown, laterally pallid; ventrally none, pallid. Eyes: All similar, small; ALE clearly smallest. Legs moderately long.
Palp: Tibia and patella similar-sized; cymbial hairs all similar, retrobasally with unmodified, narrow edge, RTA: ventral lobe short rounded, almost entirely sclerotised; dorsal lobe spiniform, apically bifid; embolus central, directed transversely prolateral turning sharply basally. MA longer than wide, a short blunt hook.
Distribution
. Known only from Point Salvation,
Western Australia
.