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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.218.3662" ID-GBIF-Dataset="be3ba212-df72-46fb-beca-4dafa0af7938" ID-PMC="PMC3433871" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-218-1" ID-PubMed="22977344" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2012" ModsDocID="1313-2970-218-1" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 218" ModsDocTitle="Australian Assassins, Part III: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of tropical north-eastern Queensland" checkinTime="1451248776473" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Rix, Michael G. &amp; Harvey, Mark S." docDate="2012" docId="0647E17B716ECA5FDCFED437C20AD4C1" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 218: 1-55" docOrigin="ZooKeys 218" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.218.3662" docTitle="Austrarchaea karenae Rix &amp; Harvey, sp. n." docType="treatment" docVersion="4" lastPageNumber="10" masterDocId="FFADD3385D72C973FFABFFCEFFA9FB49" masterDocTitle="Australian Assassins, Part III: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of tropical north-eastern Queensland" masterLastPageNumber="50" masterPageNumber="1" pageNumber="9" updateTime="1668154407282" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Australian Assassins, Part III: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of tropical north-eastern Queensland</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Rix, Michael G.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Harvey, Mark S.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:title>ZooKeys</mods:title>
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<mods:date>2012</mods:date>
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<mods:number>218</mods:number>
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<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:E010DAB8-9909-432E-BAA9-0452A1EBCCE0" authority="Rix &amp; Harvey" class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea karenae" order="Araneae" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="karenae">Austrarchaea karenae Rix &amp; Harvey</taxonomicName>
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Figs 91825
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Vernacular name.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Windsor Tableland Assassin Spider</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Type material.</paragraph>
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Holotype male: Windsor Tableland, [Windsor Tableland National Park], 1.2 km past barracks, Queensland, Australia,
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,
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="145.03334">145°02'E</geoCoordinate>
, QM berlesate, stick brushing, rainforest, 1060 m, 24.XI.1997, G. Monteith (QMB S43060).
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="9">The specific epithet is a patronym in honour of Dr Karen Edward, for her contributions to our understanding of Wet Tropics biogeography, and for her great friendship to MGR and MSH over many years.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea karenae" order="Araneae" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="karenae">Austrarchaea karenae</taxonomicName>
can be distinguished from all other
<taxonomicName family="Archaeidae" lsidName="" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" rank="family">Archaeidae</taxonomicName>
from north-eastern Queensland except
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea tealei" order="Araneae" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tealei">Austrarchaea tealei</taxonomicName>
sp. n.,
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea thompsoni" order="Araneae" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="thompsoni">Austrarchaea thompsoni</taxonomicName>
sp. n. and
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by the presence of a triangular spur on the embolus (Figs 9
<normalizedToken originalValue="DE">D-E</normalizedToken>
); from
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea thompsoni" order="Araneae" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="thompsoni">Austrarchaea thompsoni</taxonomicName>
sp. n. by the presence of a prominent, triangular tegular sclerite 1 (TS 1), which is vi
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in ventral view (Fig. 9D); and from
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea tealei" order="Araneae" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tealei">Austrarchaea tealei</taxonomicName>
sp. n. and
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by the shape of tegular sclerite 3 (TS 3), which has a single, sharply pointed process distally (Fig. 9D).
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Description.</paragraph>
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Holotype male: Total length 2.97; leg I femur 3.17; F1/CL ratio 2.74. Cephalothorax dark reddish-brown; legs tan-brown with darker annulations; abdomen mottled grey-brown and beige, with darker brown dorsal scute and sclerites (Fig. 9A). Carapace tall (CH/CL ratio 2.12); 1.15 long, 2.49 high, 1.09 wide,
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0.61 wide; bearing two pairs of rudimentary horns; highest point of pars cephalica (HPC) near posterior third of
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(ratio of HPC to post-ocular length 0.65), carapace gently sloping posterior to HPC;
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moderately elevated dorsally (post-ocular ratio 0.32). Chelicerae with short brush of accessory setae on anterior face of paturon (Fig. 9B). Abdomen 1.59 long, 1.13 wide; with two pairs of dorsal hump-like tubercles (HT 1-4); dorsal scute fused anteriorly to epigastric sclerites, extending posteriorly to first pair of hump-like tubercles; HT 3-4 each covered by separate dorsal sclerites. Unexpanded pedipalp (Figs 9
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) of Type A morphology (Fig. 6), with large, retrolaterally directed, arched conductor; embolus distally directed, slightly sinuous, with short triangular spur adjacent to distal rim of conductor, embolus projecting beyond distal rim of conductor by ~1/2 length of exposed embolic portion; tegular sclerite 3 (TS 3) short, spur-like, with flattened proximal portion and sharply pointed, claw-like apex; TS 2-2a looped over retrolateral edge of conductor, TS 2 with pointed, subtriangular apex, TS 2a projecting beyond distal rim of conductor but not extending to near tip of embolus; TS 1 broadly triangular in ventral view.
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Female: Unknown.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea karenae" order="Araneae" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="karenae">Austrarchaea karenae</taxonomicName>
is known only from the Windsor Tableland, 44 km north-west of Mossman (Figs 18, 25). The single known specimen was collected in high altitude tropical rainforest.
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Conservation status.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Unknown (data deficient).</paragraph>
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