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<taxonomicName id="FBD3944F1648C3244572BA67C01E5E50" ID-CoL="JVGC" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:95A5C68E-D47C-44B0-BE6A-26559C286359" authorityName="Rix &amp; Harvey" class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea platnickorum" order="Araneae" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="platnickorum" status="sp. nov.">Austrarchaea platnickorum</taxonomicName>
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Rix &amp; Harvey
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Figs 7J9C2139
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<paragraph id="85A8A3861CA0F6D9E90B50BAD67995B4" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Type material.</paragraph>
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Holotype male: New England National Park, Banksia Point, Beech Forest and start of Lyrebird Track, New South Wales, Australia,
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,
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, sifting elevated leaf litter under tussocky snow grass,
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rainforest and adjacent snow gum woodland, 1491 m, 18.IV.2010, M. Rix, D. Harms (AMS KS114971).
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<paragraph id="39A9B505CDF778D7B337F44F5ECFE746" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Paratypes: Allotype female, same data as holotype (AMS KS114970); 3 males, 2 females and 5 juveniles, same data as holotype (WAM T112558DNA: Ar51-101-M/Ar51-102-F/Ar51-103-J).</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="C00E363D9B08486851B0EEBD42EDC5F0" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Other material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA515E3690CCE5990400F863D1150B" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">AUSTRALIA: New South Wales: New England National Park: Banksia Point, ex pan traps, 2-15.X.1984, I. Naumann, J. Cardale, 1 juvenile (ANIC); Point Lookout, 22.III.1980 - 16.III.1981, G. Monteith, 1 juvenile (QMB S30819).</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="74BEC93B3B4312E94CC3C3F92059F474" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Etymology.</paragraph>
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The specific epithet is a patronym in honour of Dr Norman Platnick and his wife Nancy. Dr
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pioneering research into many different spider lineages - including
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- has inspired a generation of arachnologists.
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<paragraph id="9D6DC4AE19362FE05497E77C47AFC008" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="97D0E97117327C37F15DEB2B83AAECF8" class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea platnickorum" order="Araneae" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="platnickorum">Austrarchaea platnickorum</taxonomicName>
can be distinguished from all other
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from mid-eastern Australia by the very long, spiniform tegular sclerite 1 (TS 1) (Fig. 21F) combined with the unique shape of the conductor (Figs 21D-E), which is thin and
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, with a long triangular apex.
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<paragraph id="B332461EA7DBC7AF34A1454BD5206B3F" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">This species can also be distinguished from other genotyped taxa from mid-eastern Australia (see Fig. 3B) by the following eight unique nucleotide substitutions for COI and COII (n = 3): A(354), A(573), A(624), T(986), G(1061), G(1077), C(1110), T(1533).</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="CB53632B4E5D71133D68901276D073DC" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Description.</paragraph>
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Holotype male: Total length 3.28; leg I femur 2.67; F1/CL ratio 2.31. Cephalothorax dark reddish-brown; legs tan-brown with darker annulations; abdomen mottled grey-brown and beige, with darker reddish-brown dorsal scute and sclerites (Fig. 21B). Carapace tall (CH/CL ratio 2.07); 1.15 long, 2.38 high, 1.08 wide;
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0.59 wide; bearing two pairs of rudimentary horns; highest point of pars cephalica (HPC) near middle of
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(ratio of HPC to post-ocular length 0.59), carapace gently sloping posterior to HPC;
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not strongly elevated dorsally (post-ocular ratio 0.26) (Fig. 9C). Chelicerae with brush of accessory setae on anterior face of paturon (Fig. 21C). Abdomen 1.85 long, 1.41 wide; with three pairs of dorsal hump-like tubercles (HT 1-6); dorsal scute fused anteriorly to epigastric sclerites, extending posteriorly to first pair of hump-like tubercles; HT 3-6 each covered by separate dorsal sclerites. Unexpanded pedipalp (Figs 21D-F) with thin, triangular
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conductor; tegular sclerite 1 (TS 1) very long, spiniform, visible in retrolateral view (TS 1 broken, rod-like on left pedipalp; Fig. 21F); TS 2 spur-like, poorly-sclerotised, longer than TS 1; TS 2a sinuous, largely obscured by TS 2; TS 3 indistinct, embedded within distal haematodocha, barely visible beyond retro-distal rim of tegulum.
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Allotype female: Total length 4.31; leg I femur 2.79; F1/CL ratio 2.14. Cephalothorax dark reddish-brown; legs tan-brown with darker annulations; abdomen mottled grey-brown and beige (Fig. 21A). Carapace tall (CH/CL ratio 2.04); 1.31 long, 2.67 high, 1.21 wide;
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0.69 wide; bearing two pairs of rudimentary horns; highest point of pars cephalica (HPC) near middle of
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(ratio of HPC to post-ocular length 0.60), carapace gently sloping posterior to HPC;
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not strongly elevated dorsally (post-ocular ratio 0.27) (Fig. 7J). Chelicerae without accessory setae on anterior face of paturon. Abdomen 2.72 long, 1.95 wide; with three pairs of dorsal hump-like tubercles (HT 1-6). Internal genitalia with dense cluster of ≤ 20 variably shaped spermathecae on either side of gonopore, clusters meeting near midline of genital plate (Fig. 21G); innermost (anterior) spermathecae longest, sausage-shaped, curved antero-laterally; other spermathecae variably aciniform, mostly straight, directed antero-laterally.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C928CDEA8C6742C895B25C968483200B" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Variation: Males (n=4): total length 2.97-3.28; carapace length 1.10-1.15; carapace height 2.21-2.38; CH/CL ratio 2.00-2.07. Females (n=3): total length 3.79-4.62; carapace length 1.26-1.31; carapace height 2.54-2.67; CH/CL ratio 2.02-2.12. The holotype male and an additional paratype male (WAM T112558) of this species have a shorter, partially broken tegular sclerite 1 (TS 1) on each left pedipalp (Fig. 21F).</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="BB0653DA43F3AE92ACB1A349AED0D2C2" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8C39613699FEBF9499EDEC4785445CEE" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Austrarchaea platnickorum is known only from rainforest and mesic closed forest habitats in the New England National Park of north-eastern New South Wales (Fig. 39).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="448FC044E825B66DB58CFB45A7305B12" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" type="conservation status">
<paragraph id="60BC0BBCA238A479AA2C38F4EA6DF4A7" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Conservation status.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="D782ACAD46AB02D6CDF501D66B8A40C8" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">This species has an imperfectly known distribution, and although potentially restricted, appears to be abundant within the World Heritage-listed New England National Park near Point Lookout (M. Rix, pers. obs.). It is not considered to be of conservation concern.</paragraph>
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