157 lines
14 KiB
XML
157 lines
14 KiB
XML
<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.191.3070" ID-GBIF-Dataset="e3acf250-1110-4fb0-8736-4433ea8c6a67" ID-PMC="PMC3353492" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-191-1" ID-PubMed="22639534" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2012" ModsDocID="1313-2970-191-1" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 191" ModsDocTitle="Australian Assassins, Part II: A review of the new assassin spider genus Zephyrarchaea (Araneae, Archaeidae) from southern Australia" checkinTime="1451249040581" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Rix, Michael G. & Harvey, Mark S." docDate="2012" docId="219CE1D9DA81AD403EBE5AF2380B348F" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 191: 1-62" docOrigin="ZooKeys 191" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.191.3070" docTitle="Zephyrarchaea barrettae Rix & Harvey, sp. n." docType="treatment" docVersion="4" lastPageNumber="17" masterDocId="FFC6FFF5FF81B72CFFEFFF8CFF8B347D" masterDocTitle="Australian Assassins, Part II: A review of the new assassin spider genus Zephyrarchaea (Araneae, Archaeidae) from southern Australia" masterLastPageNumber="62" masterPageNumber="1" pageNumber="15" updateTime="1668153862162" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
|
||
<mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
|
||
<mods:titleInfo>
|
||
<mods:title>Australian Assassins, Part II: A review of the new assassin spider genus Zephyrarchaea (Araneae, Archaeidae) from southern Australia</mods:title>
|
||
</mods:titleInfo>
|
||
<mods:name type="personal">
|
||
<mods:role>
|
||
<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
|
||
</mods:role>
|
||
<mods:namePart>Rix, Michael G.</mods:namePart>
|
||
</mods:name>
|
||
<mods:name type="personal">
|
||
<mods:role>
|
||
<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
|
||
</mods:role>
|
||
<mods:namePart>Harvey, Mark S.</mods:namePart>
|
||
</mods:name>
|
||
<mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource>
|
||
<mods:relatedItem type="host">
|
||
<mods:titleInfo>
|
||
<mods:title>ZooKeys</mods:title>
|
||
</mods:titleInfo>
|
||
<mods:part>
|
||
<mods:date>2012</mods:date>
|
||
<mods:detail type="volume">
|
||
<mods:number>191</mods:number>
|
||
</mods:detail>
|
||
<mods:extent unit="page">
|
||
<mods:start>1</mods:start>
|
||
<mods:end>62</mods:end>
|
||
</mods:extent>
|
||
</mods:part>
|
||
</mods:relatedItem>
|
||
<mods:location>
|
||
<mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.191.3070</mods:url>
|
||
</mods:location>
|
||
<mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification>
|
||
<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.191.3070</mods:identifier>
|
||
<mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1313-2970-191-1</mods:identifier>
|
||
</mods:mods>
|
||
<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="152035444" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:D01825F1-C02A-45C9-96F3-0329CA4F1308" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/219CE1D9DA81AD403EBE5AF2380B348F" lastPageId="16" lastPageNumber="17" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="14" pageNumber="15" type="nomenclature">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="15">
|
||
<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:D01825F1-C02A-45C9-96F3-0329CA4F1308" authority="Rix & Harvey" class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea barrettae" order="Araneae" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="barrettae">Zephyrarchaea barrettae Rix & Harvey</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="14" pageNumber="15">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
Figs 1B8F9I1525
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="14" pageNumber="15" type="vernacular name">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Talyuberlup Assassin Spider</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection lastPageId="15" lastPageNumber="16" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" type="type material">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Type material.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph lastPageId="15" lastPageNumber="16" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">
|
||
AUSTRALIA: Holotype male: Stirling Range National Park, Talyuberlup Peak, Western Australia, Australia,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="-34.405834">34°24'21"S</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="117.95222">117°57'08"E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
, sifting elevated
|
||
<pageBreakToken pageId="15" pageNumber="16" start="start">leaf</pageBreakToken>
|
||
litter under
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Cyperaceae" genus="Lepidosperma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Lepidosperma" order="Poales" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Lepidosperma</taxonomicName>
|
||
sedges near summit, 4.VIII.2008, M. Rix, M. Harvey (WAM T117055DNA: TA-154-M).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Paratypes: Allotype female and 2 juveniles, same data as holotype except 8.II.2009, M. Harvey (WAM T97466DNA: TA-156-J/TA-157-J).</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="other material examined">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Other material examined.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
|
||
AUSTRALIA: Western Australia:Stirling Range National Park: same data as holotype, 1 juvenile (WAM T94089DNA: TA-155-J); Talyuberlup Peak,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="-34.405556">34°24'20"S</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="117.95166">117°57'06"E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
, sifting elevated and low leaf litter, montane vegetation around rocky peak, 752 m, 12 April 2009, H. Wood, 1♂, 2♀ (CASENT 9028379); same data, 1♀ (CASENT 9034515).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="etymology">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Etymology.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">The specific epithet is a patronym in honour of Sarah Barrett, for first discovering assassin spiders in the Stirling Range National Park in 1996.</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="diagnosis">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea barrettae" order="Araneae" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="barrettae">Zephyrarchaea barrettae</taxonomicName>
|
||
can be distinguished from
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea janineae" order="Araneae" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="janineae">Zephyrarchaea janineae</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea mainae" order="Araneae" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mainae">Zephyrarchaea mainae</taxonomicName>
|
||
by the absence of dorsal hump-like tubercles on the abdomen (Figs 15
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="A–B">A-B</normalizedToken>
|
||
); from
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea marae" order="Araneae" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="marae">Zephyrarchaea marae</taxonomicName>
|
||
sp. n.,
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea marki" order="Araneae" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="marki">Zephyrarchaea marki</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea porchi" order="Araneae" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="porchi">Zephyrarchaea porchi</taxonomicName>
|
||
sp. n. and
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea vichickmani" order="Araneae" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vichickmani">Zephyrarchaea vichickmani</taxonomicName>
|
||
sp. n. by the shape of tegular sclerites 2-3, which do not project beyond the retro-distal rim of the tegulum (Figs 15
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="D–E">D-E</normalizedToken>
|
||
); and from
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea melindae" order="Araneae" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="melindae">Zephyrarchaea melindae</taxonomicName>
|
||
by the shape of the anterior margin of the diastema adjacent to the
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="‘neck’">'neck'</normalizedToken>
|
||
, which is slightly (in females) or strongly concave in lateral view (in males) (Figs 15
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="A–B">A-B</normalizedToken>
|
||
cf. Figs 14
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="A–B">A-B</normalizedToken>
|
||
). Females further distinguished from other known congeners by the combination of a spherical abdomen (Fig. 15A), shallow post-ocular depression in lateral view (Fig. 9I), taller carapace (CH/CL ratio> 1.70) (Figs 7, 15A) and slightly concave anterior margin of the diastema adjacent to the
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="‘neck’">'neck'</normalizedToken>
|
||
(Fig. 15A).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection lastPageId="16" lastPageNumber="17" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="description">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Description.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
|
||
Holotype male: Total length 3.13; leg I femur 2.19; F1/CL ratio 1.92. Cephalothorax dark reddish-brown; legs tan brown with darker annulations; abdomen mottled grey-brown and beige, with reddish-brown dorsal scute and sclerites (Fig. 15B). Carapace relatively short (CH/CL ratio 1.71); 1.14 long, 1.95 high, 1.13 wide;
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="‘neck’">'neck'</normalizedToken>
|
||
0.67 wide; highest point of pars cephalica (HPC) approaching posterior third of
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="‘head’">'head'</normalizedToken>
|
||
(ratio of HPC to post-ocular length 0.59), carapace with shallow concave depression anterior to HPC;
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="‘head’">'head'</normalizedToken>
|
||
not strongly elevated dorsally (post-ocular ratio 0.21) (Fig. 8F). Chelicerae with proximal brush and additional comb of accessory setae on anterior face of paturon (Fig. 15C). Abdomen 1.59 long, 1.21 wide; almost spherical in lateral profile, without dorsal hump-like tubercles; dorsal scute fused anteriorly to epigastric sclerites, extending posteriorly to cover anterior two-thirds of dorsal abdomen. Unexpanded pedipalp (Figs 15
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="D–F">D-F</normalizedToken>
|
||
) pyriform, with broad, distally curved embolus supported by conductor sclerites 1-2; tegular sclerite 1 (TS 1) strongly curved, claw-like in prolateral view, with twisted, flattened and broadly rounded apex; TS 2-3 not projecting beyond retro-distal rim of tegulum.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph lastPageId="16" lastPageNumber="17" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
|
||
Allotype female: Total length 3.64; leg I femur 2.31; F1/CL ratio 1.77. Cephalothorax dark reddish-brown; legs tan brown with darker annulations; abdomen variably beige-grey (Fig. 15A). Carapace relatively short (CH/CL ratio 1.78); 1.31 long, 2.33 high, 1.26 wide;
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="‘neck’">'neck'</normalizedToken>
|
||
0.78 wide; highest point of pars cephalica (HPC) approaching posterior third of
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="‘head’">'head'</normalizedToken>
|
||
(ratio of HPC to post-ocular length 0.59), carapace with shallow concave depression anterior to HPC;
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="‘head’">'head'</normalizedToken>
|
||
not strongly elevated dorsally (post-ocular ratio 0.22) (Fig. 9I). Chelicerae without accessory setae on anterior face of paturon. Abdomen 1.90 long, 1.69 wide; spherical in lateral profile, without dorsal hump-like
|
||
<pageBreakToken pageId="16" pageNumber="17" start="start">tubercles</pageBreakToken>
|
||
. Internal genitalia (Fig. 15G) with cluster of ≤ 15 sausage-shaped spermathecae either side of gonopore, clusters widely separated along midline of genital plate.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="distribution">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea barrettae" order="Araneae" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="barrettae">Zephyrarchaea barrettae</taxonomicName>
|
||
is known only from the summit of Talyuberlup Peak, in the western Stirling Range National Park of southern Western Australia (west of Chester Pass) (Fig. 25). Specimens have been collected by beating and sifting sedges (
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Cyperaceae" genus="Lepidosperma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Lepidosperma" order="Poales" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Lepidosperma</taxonomicName>
|
||
sp.) in montane heathland.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="conservation status">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Conservation status.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
|
||
This species is a short-range endemic taxon (
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Harvey, MS" journalOrPublisher="Invertebrate Systematics" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" pagination="555 - 570" title="Short-range endemism among the Australian fauna: some examples from non-marine environments." url="10.1071/IS02009" volume="16" year="2002 b">Harvey 2002b</bibRefCitation>
|
||
), with a maximum total range of less than 10 km2, and all known populations in the western Stirling Range National Park potentially threatened by fire, dieback disease (affecting montane vegetation) and climate change.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
</document> |