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
1
1
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
5396112
Desognaphosa eungella
,
new species
Figures 203–206
;
Map 18
TYPE:
Female
holotype
and male
allotype
taken in
pitfall
trap in rainforest at schoolhouse,
Eungella
, 21
°
08
̍
S, 148
°
29
̍
E,
Queensland
(
Feb. 11–15, 1986
;
R. Raven
,
J. Gallon
), deposited in
QMB
(
S7050
)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Males can be distinguished from the other known
yabbra
group males by the relatively short embolus (fig. 203), females by the narrow epigynal septum (fig. 205).
MALE: Total length 5.6. Coloration as in
D. yabbra
. Leg spination: tibia IV v21p2, r011; metatarsi: III v202; IV v21p2, r1 00. Retrolateral tibial apophysis short hook on wide ledge, cymbial excavation deep, extending almost half length of segment (fig. 204); embolus not extending posterior of tibial margin, with prominent, prolaterally directed protuberance at base (fig. 203).
FEMALE: Total length 6.3. Coloration as in
D. yabbra
. Leg spination: tibia IV r111; metatarsi: III v202; IV 21p2, r100. Epigynum with wide, bipartite anterior margin connected to narrow median septum (fig. 205); anteromedian portion of ducts greatly widened (fig. 206).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
Queensland
:
Broken River
,
Eungella National Park
, 21
°
10
̍
S, 148
°
31
̍
E,
July 29–Dec. 4, 1992
, rainforest
pitfall
(
R. Raven
,
P., E. Lawless
,
QMB
S40719), 23
;
Crediton
, 21
°
12
̍
S, 148
°
32
̍
E,
Apr. 14–21, 1975
, litter (
V. Davies
,
R. Kohout
,
QMB
S28305
),
3♀
;
Dalrymple Heights
,
Eungella National Park
, 21
°
08
̍
S, 148
°
30
̍
E,
Nov. 1976
, litter (
M. Bishop
,
QMB
S28301
),
2♀
;
Dalrymple Heights
, near
Eungella
, 21
°
04
̍
S, 148
°
35
̍
E,
Mar.–Apr. 1975
, rainforest litter, elev.
1000 m
(
M. Gray
,
C. Horseman
,
AMS
KS6382
), 13,
1♀
;
Dalrymple Road
, 5.6 km
SW Snake Road
junction,
Eungella National Park
, 21
°
06
̍
S, 148
°
32
̍
E,
Apr. 19, 1998
, rainforest (
G. Milledge
,
AMS
KS55321
),
1♀
;
schoolhouse,
Eungella
, 21
°
08
̍
S, 148
°
29
̍
E,
Feb. 11–15, 1986
(
R. Raven
,
J. Gallon
,
QMB
S7030
), 13
;
Mount Macartney
,
Cathu State Forest
, 20
°
51
̍
S, 148
°
33
̍
E,
Apr. 20, 1979
,
Berlese
, stick brushings, rainforest, elev.
750 m
(
G. Monteith
,
QMB
S30345
),
1♀
.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from mideastern
Queensland
(map 18).