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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="8E646CD3B2741B3A70BB721825C722AC" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 123: 1-100" docOrigin="ZooKeys 123" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.123.1448" docTitle="Austrarchaea dianneae Gold Coast Hinterland Assassin Spider Rix & Harvey, sp. n." docType="treatment" docVersion="5" lastPageNumber="17" masterDocId="A428FFEAFD3A7353FFACFFBCFFFA6D47" masterDocTitle="Australian Assassins, Part I: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of mid-eastern Australia" masterLastPageNumber="100" masterPageNumber="1" pageNumber="15" 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: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="152030495" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:C0149F76-0A44-4DB4-8DAF-088B17161900" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/8E646CD3B2741B3A70BB721825C722AC" lastPageId="16" lastPageNumber="17" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">
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<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:C0149F76-0A44-4DB4-8DAF-088B17161900" authority="Rix & Harvey" class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea dianneae" name="Gold Coast Hinterland Assassin Spider" order="Araneae" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="vernacular name" species="dianneae" vernacular="vernacular">Austrarchaea dianneae Gold Coast Hinterland Assassin Spider Rix & Harvey</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="14" pageNumber="15">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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Figs 7H8H1129
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<subSubSection lastPageId="15" lastPageNumber="16" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" type="type material">
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Type material.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="15">
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Holotype male: Tamborine National Park, Joalah section, track to Curtis Falls, Queensland, Australia,
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="-27.925833">27°55'33"S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="153.19305">153°11'35"E</geoCoordinate>
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, sifting elevated leaf litter and hand collecting at night, subtropical rainforest, 313 m, 26.IV.2010, M. Rix, D. Harms (QMB S90185).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="15" pageNumber="16" start="start">Paratypes</pageBreakToken>
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: Allotype female, same data as holotype (QMB S90186); 2 males and 7 juveniles, same data as holotype (WAM T112557DNA: Ar59-60-M/Ar59-61-J/Ar59-62-J).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="other material examined">
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<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Other material examined.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
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AUSTRALIA: Queensland: Lamington National Park: Binna Burra, Ships Stern Circuit track,
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="-28.197498">28°11'51"S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="153.19112">153°11'28"E</geoCoordinate>
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, sifting elevated leaf litter, subtropical rainforest, 764 m, 25.IV.2010, M. & A. Rix, D. & S. Harms, J. Wojcieszek, 2♂, 4 juveniles (WAM T112556DNA: Ar56-54-M/Ar56-55-J/ Ar56-56-J); Wojigumal Creek,
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="-28.208055">28°12'29"S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="153.19888">153°11'56"E</geoCoordinate>
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, pyrethrum, 570 m, 19.III.2008, A. Nakamura, 1♀ (QMB S87980).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="additional material examined (of tentative identification)">
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<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Additional material examined (of tentative identification).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
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AUSTRALIA: Queensland: Lamington National Park: IBISCA Plot IQ-300-C,
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="-28.151112">28°09'04"S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="153.13805">153°08'17"E</geoCoordinate>
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, pitfall trap, 260 m, 23.I.2007, K. Staunton, 1 juvenile (QMB S90181).
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<subSubSection pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Etymology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">The specific epithet is a patronym in honour of the late Dianne Wojcieszek (1962-2003), for her love of the Mount Tamborine Hinterland.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea dianneae" order="Araneae" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dianneae">Austrarchaea dianneae</taxonomicName>
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can be distinguished from all other
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<taxonomicName family="Archaeidae" lsidName="" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" 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 cunninghami" order="Araneae" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cunninghami">Austrarchaea cunninghami</taxonomicName>
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sp. n. by the shape of the conductor (Figs 11D-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 cunninghami" order="Araneae" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cunninghami">Austrarchaea cunninghami</taxonomicName>
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sp. n. by the longer, spiniform tegular sclerite 1 (TS 1) (Fig. 11F) and by the more conical, posteriorly elevated shape of the male
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘head’">'head'</normalizedToken>
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(Fig. 8H).
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<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">This species can also be distinguished from other genotyped taxa from mid-eastern Australia (see Fig. 3B) by the following three unique nucleotide substitutions for COI (n = 6): T(303), G(798), A(1065).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection lastPageId="16" lastPageNumber="17" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Description.</paragraph>
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Holotype male: Total length 3.03; leg I femur 3.12; F1/CL ratio 2.83. 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. 11B). Carapace very tall (CH/CL ratio 2.37); 1.10 long, 2.62 high, 1.02 wide;
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘neck’">'neck'</normalizedToken>
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0.51 wide; bearing two pairs of rudimentary horns; highest point of pars cephalica (HPC) near posterior margin of
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘head’">'head'</normalizedToken>
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(ratio of HPC to post-ocular length 0.87), carapace gently sloping and almost horizontal anterior to HPC;
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘head’">'head'</normalizedToken>
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not strongly elevated dorsally (post-ocular ratio 0.29) (Fig. 8H). Chelicerae with brush of accessory setae on anterior face of paturon (Fig. 11C). Abdomen 1.69 long, 1.33 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 11D-F) with broad, foliate conductor, curved laterally with triangular apex; tegular sclerite 1 (TS 1) spiniform, obscured by conductor in retrolateral view; TS 2 spur-like, longer than TS 1; TS 2a sinuous, largely obscured by TS 2; TS 3 embedded proximally within distal haematodocha, with sharply-pointed, triangular apex projecting beyond retro-distal rim of tegulum.
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<paragraph lastPageId="16" lastPageNumber="17" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
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Allotype female: Total length 3.74; leg I femur 3.18; F1/CL ratio 2.43. Cephalothorax dark reddish-brown; legs tan-brown with darker annulations; abdomen mottled grey-brown and beige, palest posteriorly (Fig. 11A). Carapace very tall (CH/CL ratio 2.28); 1.31 long, 2.97 high, 1.21 wide;
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘neck’">'neck'</normalizedToken>
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0.65 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 0.55), carapace gently sloping posterior to HPC;
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘head’">'head'</normalizedToken>
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not
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<pageBreakToken pageId="16" pageNumber="17" start="start">strongly</pageBreakToken>
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elevated dorsally (post-ocular ratio 0.25) (Fig. 7H). Chelicerae without accessory setae on anterior face of paturon. Abdomen 2.15 long, 1.64 wide; with three pairs of dorsal hump-like tubercles (HT 1-6). Internal genitalia with cluster of ≤ 12 variably shaped spermathecae on either side of gonopore, clusters meeting near midline of genital plate (Fig. 11G); innermost (anterior) spermathecae longest, sausage-shaped, curved antero-laterally; other spermathecae variably pyriform, curved, directed laterally.
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Variation: Males (n=5): total length 2.73-3.21; carapace length 1.09-1.13; carapace height 2.53-2.62; CH/CL ratio 2.24-2.39. Females (n=2): total length 3.64-3.74; carapace length 1.31 (invariable); carapace height 2.87-2.97; CH/CL ratio 2.20-2.28.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea dianneae" order="Araneae" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dianneae">Austrarchaea dianneae</taxonomicName>
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is known only from subtropical rainforest habitats in the Tamborine and Lamington National Parks south of Brisbane, south-eastern Queensland (Fig. 29). At Binna Burra (Lamington National Park) it has been found in sympatry with
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea nodosa" order="Araneae" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nodosa">Austrarchaea nodosa</taxonomicName>
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, in the only known example of two-species sympatry among Australian archaeids (see Nomenclatural Remarks for
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea nodosa" order="Araneae" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nodosa">Austrarchaea nodosa</taxonomicName>
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, above).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="conservation status">
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Conservation status.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
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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 Tamborine National Park (M. Rix, pers. obs.) and is further protected within the World Heritage-listed Lamington National Park. It is not considered to be of conservation concern.
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