A Revision Of The Australasian Ground Spiders Of The Families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, And Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea)
Author
PLATNICK, NORMAN I.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2002
2002-09-19
2002
271
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0090%282002%29271%3C0001%3AAROTAG%3E2.0.CO%3B2
journal article
10.1206/0003-0090(2002)271<0001:AROTAG>2.0.CO;2
0003-0090
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Austrammo rossi
,
new species
Figures 28–31
;
Map 2
TYPE: Female
holotype
taken at an elevation of
100 m
at
Windjana Gorge
, 17
°
25
̍
S, 124
°
55
̍
E,
Western Australia
(
Oct. 17, 1962
;
E. Ross
,
D. Cavagnaro
), deposited in
CAS
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of the collector of the
holotype
.
DIAGNOSIS: The single known male and female are from widely separated localities, but are tentatively matched here in accordance with the null hypothesis strategy outlined by
Platnick (2000)
. Males can easily be distinguished from congenerics by their very short retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 29), females by having the lateral epigynal margins connected to the anterior epigynal hood (fig. 30).
MALE: Total length 4.3. Leg spination: femur IV p000, r001; tibiae: III v01p2; IV p001, v01p2; metatarsi III, IV p012. Retrolateral tibial apophysis very short, hooked (fig. 29); embolus relatively short, wide (fig. 28).
FEMALE: Total length 6.4. Carapace yellow, abdominal dorsum pale yellow, venter white, legs pale yellow. Leg spination: femur IV p000, r001; tibiae: III v1p22; IV p0 11, r001; metatarsi: III p001; IV r002. Epigynal hood large, archshaped, connected via lateral epigynal margins to margins of median septum (fig. 30); spermathecae bipartite (fig. 31).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
Western Australia
:
Nerren Nerren Station, 27
°
00
̍
S, 114
°
32
̍
E,
Jan. 11–May 11, 1995
, pitfall (P. West, WAM 99/408), 13.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from
Western Australia
(map 2).