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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.123.1448" ID-GBIF-Dataset="f1dbd205-6f2f-4feb-867e-d52041258d12" ID-PMC="PMC3175121" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-123-1" ID-PubMed="21998529" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2011" ModsDocID="1313-2970-123-1" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 123" ModsDocTitle="Australian Assassins, Part I: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of mid-eastern Australia" checkinTime="1451249962699" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Rix, Michael G. & Harvey, Mark S." docDate="2011" docId="529B1F873995E040B736EAB1B3F524A5" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 123: 1-100" docOrigin="ZooKeys 123" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.123.1448" docTitle="Austrarchaea cunninghami Main Range Assassin Spider Rix & Harvey, sp. n." docType="treatment" docVersion="5" lastPageNumber="18" masterDocId="A428FFEAFD3A7353FFACFFBCFFFA6D47" masterDocTitle="Australian Assassins, Part I: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of mid-eastern Australia" masterLastPageNumber="100" masterPageNumber="1" pageNumber="17" updateTime="1668152002706" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Australian Assassins, Part I: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of mid-eastern Australia</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:date>2011</mods:date>
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<mods:number>123</mods:number>
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<mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.123.1448</mods:url>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.123.1448</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1313-2970-123-1</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="152030501" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:EFE94CB8-B85A-4573-B181-E6279995D9B2" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/529B1F873995E040B736EAB1B3F524A5" lastPageId="17" lastPageNumber="18" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
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<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:EFE94CB8-B85A-4573-B181-E6279995D9B2" authority="Rix & Harvey" class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea cunninghami" name="Main Range Assassin Spider" order="Araneae" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="vernacular name" species="cunninghami" vernacular="vernacular">Austrarchaea cunninghami Main Range Assassin Spider Rix & Harvey</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="16" pageNumber="17">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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Figs 7G8G1230
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<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="type material">
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Type material.</paragraph>
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Holotype male: Main Range National Park, Cunningham's Gap, track to Mount Mitchell, Queensland, Australia,
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="-28.051388">28°03'05"S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="152.39471">152°23'41"E</geoCoordinate>
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, sifting elevated leaf litter, subtropical rainforest and adjacent transitional eucalypt forest, 805 m, 23.IV.2010, M. Rix, D. Harms (QMB S90184).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Paratypes: Allotype female, same data as holotype (QMB S90183); 1 female and 14 juveniles, same data as holotype (WAM T112555DNA: Ar55-89-F/Ar55-90-J/Ar55-91-J).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="other material examined">
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Other material examined.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">AUSTRALIA: Queensland:Main Range National Park: Mount Mitchell, pitfall, 1060 m, 1.III.1992, D. Cook, 1 juvenile (QMB S25714).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="additional material examined (of tentative identification)">
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Additional material examined (of tentative identification).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">AUSTRALIA: Queensland: Main Range National Park: Mount Superbus, summit, pyrethrum, trees and logs, 1300 m, 8-9.II.1990, G. Monteith, G. Thompson, H. Janetski, 2 juveniles (QMB S38509); Mount Asplenium, pyrethrum, trees and logs, 1290 m, 30.I.1993, G. Monteith, 1 juvenile (QMB S90179).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Etymology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
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The specific epithet is a patronym in honour of British botanist and explorer Allan Cunningham (1791-1839), after whom the type locality of this species -
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Cunningham’s">Cunningham's</normalizedToken>
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Gap in the Main Range National Park - is named.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="17" pageNumber="18" type="diagnosis">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="17" pageNumber="18" start="start">Diagnosis</pageBreakToken>
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.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea cunninghami" order="Araneae" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cunninghami">Austrarchaea cunninghami</taxonomicName>
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can be distinguished from all other
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<taxonomicName family="Archaeidae" lsidName="" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" rank="family">Archaeidae</taxonomicName>
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from mid-eastern Australia except
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea dianneae" order="Araneae" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dianneae">Austrarchaea dianneae</taxonomicName>
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by the shape of the conductor (Figs 12D-E), which is broad, foliate and curved laterally, with a triangular apex; and from
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea dianneae" order="Araneae" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dianneae">Austrarchaea dianneae</taxonomicName>
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by the shorter, sharply-tapered tegular sclerite 1 (TS 1) (Fig. 12F) and by the more rounded, less conical shape of the male
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘head’">'head'</normalizedToken>
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(Fig. 8G).
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">This species can also be distinguished from other genotyped taxa from mid-eastern Australia (see Fig. 3B) by the following four unique nucleotide substitutions for COI and COII (n = 3): C(769), C(981), C(1140), G(1152).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="17" pageNumber="18" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Description.</paragraph>
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Holotype male: Total length 2.82; leg I femur 3.01; F1/CL ratio 2.70. Cephalothorax dark reddish-brown; legs tan-brown with darker annulations; abdomen mottled grey-brown and beige, with darker brown dorsal scute and sclerites (Fig. 12B). Carapace very tall (CH/CL ratio 2.21); 1.12 long, 2.46 high, 1.05 wide;
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘neck’">'neck'</normalizedToken>
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0.56 wide; bearing two pairs of rudimentary horns; highest point of pars cephalica (HPC) near middle of
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘head’">'head'</normalizedToken>
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(ratio of HPC to post-ocular length 0.60), carapace gently sloping posterior to HPC;
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘head’">'head'</normalizedToken>
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not strongly elevated dorsally (post-ocular ratio 0.27) (Fig. 8G). Chelicerae with brush of accessory setae on anterior face of paturon (Fig. 12C). Abdomen 1.46 long, 0.97 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 12D-F) with broad, foliate conductor, strongly curved laterally with triangular, evenly-tapered apex; tegular sclerite 1 (TS 1) relatively short, with rectangular base and sharply-tapered apex, obscured by conductor in retrolateral view; TS 2 spur-like, longer than TS 1; TS 2a sinuous, filiform, exposed distally; TS 3 embedded proximally within distal haematodocha, with sharply-pointed apex projecting beyond retro-distal rim of tegulum.
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">
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Allotype female: Total length 3.54; leg I femur 3.24; F1/CL ratio 2.30. Cephalothorax brown; legs tan-brown with darker annulations; abdomen mottled grey-brown and beige (Fig. 12A). Carapace tall (CH/CL ratio 2.20); 1.41 long, 3.10 high, 1.28 wide;
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘neck’">'neck'</normalizedToken>
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0.76 wide; bearing two pairs of rudimentary horns; highest point of pars cephalica (HPC) near middle of
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘head’">'head'</normalizedToken>
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(ratio of HPC to post-ocular length 0.57), carapace gently sloping posterior to HPC;
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘head’">'head'</normalizedToken>
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not strongly elevated dorsally (post-ocular ratio 0.23) (Fig. 7G). Chelicerae without accessory setae on anterior face of paturon. Abdomen 1.90 long, 1.41 wide; with three pairs of dorsal hump-like tubercles (HT 1-6). Internal genitalia with cluster of ≤ 10 variably shaped spermathecae on either side of gonopore, clusters marginally separated near midline of genital plate (Fig. 12G); innermost (anterior) spermathecae longest, sausage-shaped, bent laterally; other spermathecae variably pyriform, curved, directed laterally.
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Variation: Females (n=2): total length 3.44-3.54; carapace length 1.38-1.41; carapace height 2.97-3.10; CH/CL ratio 2.15-2.20.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="17" pageNumber="18" type="distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea cunninghami" order="Araneae" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cunninghami">Austrarchaea cunninghami</taxonomicName>
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is known only from rainforest habitats in the Main Range National Park of extreme south-eastern Queensland (Fig. 30).
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<subSubSection pageId="17" pageNumber="18" type="conservation status">
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Conservation status.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">
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This species is a short-range endemic taxon (
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<bibRefCitation author="Harvey, MS" journalOrPublisher="Invertebrate Systematics" pageId="39" pageNumber="40" pagination="555 - 570" title="Short-range endemism among the Australian fauna: some examples from non-marine environments." url="doi:10.1071/IS02009" volume="16" year="2002 b">Harvey 2002b</bibRefCitation>
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), which although restricted in distribution, is abundant within the World Heritage-listed Main Range National Park near
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Cunningham’s">Cunningham's</normalizedToken>
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Gap (M. Rix, pers. obs.). It is not considered to be of conservation concern.
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