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<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="6B6CA65FE7464BE69781D128FB7C4E00" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 191: 1-62" docOrigin="ZooKeys 191" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.191.3070" docTitle="Zephyrarchaea porchi Rix & Harvey, sp. n." docType="treatment" docVersion="4" lastPageNumber="21" 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="21" updateTime="1668153862162" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Australian Assassins, Part II: A review of the new assassin spider genus Zephyrarchaea (Araneae, Archaeidae) from southern 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>2012</mods:date>
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<mods:number>191</mods:number>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.191.3070</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1313-2970-191-1</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="152035435" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:3005E6AB-024D-4559-BAE7-78E3D47CE5E0" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B6CA65FE7464BE69781D128FB7C4E00" lastPageNumber="21" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">
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<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:3005E6AB-024D-4559-BAE7-78E3D47CE5E0" authority="Rix & Harvey" class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea porchi" order="Araneae" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="porchi">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="20" pageNumber="21" start="start">Zephyrarchaea</pageBreakToken>
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porchi Rix & Harvey
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="20" pageNumber="21">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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Figs 8D1828
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Otway Range Assassin Spider</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="20" pageNumber="21" type="type material">
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Type material.</paragraph>
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Holotype male: Bimbi Park, 2.2 km N. of Cape Otway Lighthouse, Victoria, Australia,
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="-38.836945">38°50'13"S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="143.51527">143°30'55"E</geoCoordinate>
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, dry pitfall trap, grassy edge of bracken-rich dry sclerophyll forest, 2-5.XI.2011, N. Porch & Deakin University Wildlife Field Studies students (MV K11581).
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<subSubSection pageId="20" pageNumber="21" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Etymology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="21">The specific epithet is a patronym in honour of Dr Nicholas Porch, for first discovering this species in the Otway Range.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="20" pageNumber="21" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="21">
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea porchi" order="Araneae" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="porchi">Zephyrarchaea porchi</taxonomicName>
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can be distinguished from
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea janineae" order="Araneae" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="janineae">Zephyrarchaea janineae</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea mainae" order="Araneae" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mainae">Zephyrarchaea mainae</taxonomicName>
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by the absence of dorsal hump-like tubercles on the abdomen (Fig. 18A); from
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea marae" order="Araneae" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="marae">Zephyrarchaea marae</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea vichickmani" order="Araneae" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vichickmani">Zephyrarchaea vichickmani</taxonomicName>
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by the presence of a proximal tuft of accessory setae on the male chelicerae (Fig. 18B); from
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea barrettae" order="Araneae" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="barrettae">Zephyrarchaea barrettae</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea melindae" order="Araneae" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="melindae">Zephyrarchaea melindae</taxonomicName>
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by the shape of tegular sclerites 2-3, which project well beyond the retro-distal rim of the tegulum (Figs 18
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<normalizedToken originalValue="C–D">C-D</normalizedToken>
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); and from
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea marki" order="Araneae" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="marki">Zephyrarchaea marki</taxonomicName>
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by the smaller, less protuberant proximal bulge on the male chelicerae (Fig. 18B).
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<subSubSection pageId="20" pageNumber="21" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Description.</paragraph>
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Holotype male: Total length 2.77; leg I femur 1.97; F1/CL ratio 1.86. Cephalothorax dark reddish-brown; legs tan brown with darker annulations; abdomen mottled grey-brown and beige, with reddish-brown dorsal scute and sclerites (Fig. 18A). Carapace relatively short (CH/CL ratio 1.70); 1.06 long, 1.81 high, 1.00 wide;
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘neck’">'neck'</normalizedToken>
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0.58 wide; highest point of pars cephalica (HPC) near posterior third of
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘head’">'head'</normalizedToken>
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(ratio of HPC to post-ocular length 0.69), carapace with pronounced concave depression anterior to HPC;
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘head’">'head'</normalizedToken>
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moderately elevated dorsally (post-ocular ratio 0.27) (Fig. 8D). Chelicerae with proximal tuft and additional comb of accessory setae on anterior face of paturon (Fig. 18B). Abdomen 1.59 long, 1.08 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. Partially expanded pedipalp (Figs 18
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<normalizedToken originalValue="C–E">C-E</normalizedToken>
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) bulbous-pyriform, with gently curved, tapering embolus adjacent to conductor sclerites 1-2; tegular sclerite 1 (TS 1) porrect, slightly curved in prolateral view, with flattened, rounded apex; TS 2-3 projecting well beyond retro-distal rim of tegulum.
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Female: Unknown.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="20" pageNumber="21" type="distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Zephyrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zephyrarchaea porchi" order="Araneae" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="porchi">Zephyrarchaea porchi</taxonomicName>
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is known only from north of Cape Otway, in the Otway Range of southern Victoria (Fig. 28). The single known specimen was collected in a dry vertebrate pitfall trap in eucalypt forest with a dense bracken fern understorey.
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<subSubSection pageId="20" pageNumber="21" type="conservation status">
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Conservation status.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="21">This species has an imperfectly known distribution, and although potentially restricted, the abundance of protected forested habitats near the type locality would suggest that the species is unlikely to be of conservation concern.</paragraph>
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