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<taxonomicName id="8E57AD7FB4E60CF87D8B99FD2E13C570" ID-CoL="JVFR" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:C227AAB1-B201-40F7-A94D-4390A30C8518" authorityName="Rix &amp; Harvey" class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea alani" order="Araneae" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="alani" status="sp. nov.">Austrarchaea alani</taxonomicName>
<vernacularName id="288A32F33FB3C732C0AED9CD6A92DC7E" language="eng">Kroombit Tops Assassin Spider</vernacularName>
Rix &amp; Harvey
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Figs 4A-E7A8A1836
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<paragraph id="32E59215810E2BFACDDFB1533CC3EFCC" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Type material.</paragraph>
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Holotype male: Kroombit Tops National Park, creek crossing off Tablelands Road, Queensland, Australia,
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,
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, sifting elevated leaf litter, subtropical rainforest with emergent eucalypts, 799 m, 26.X.2010, M. &amp; A. Rix (QMB S90195).
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Paratypes: Allotype female, same data as holotype (QMB S90194); 1 female, same data as holotype (QMB S90196); 2 females and 3 juveniles, same data as holotype
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WAM T112550DNA: KT-63-F/KT-64-J/KT-65-J); 1 male and 2 juveniles, Kroombit Tops National Park, Rainforest Walk off Tablelands Road, near Munholme Creek, Queensland, Australia,
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,
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, sifting elevated leaf litter, subtropical rainforest, 753 m, 26.X.2010, M. &amp; A. Rix (WAM T112551DNA: KT-66-M/KT-67-J).
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<paragraph id="671807B5889BC20795248ED3FC712FF2" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Additional material (not examined).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="71B0E0AB3B862E5B63B29DAF9F9B6C3B" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">AUSTRALIA: Queensland: Kroombit Tops National Park: Lower Dry Creek, pitfall trap, rainforest, 13-18.XII.1983, G. Monteith, V. Davies, J. Gallon, G. Thompson, 1♂ (QMB S30812); Three Moon Creek, rainforest, 9-19.XII.1983, V. Davies, J. Gallon, 2♀ (QMB S30816); Beauty Spot 98, rainforest, 9-19.XII.1983, V. Davies, J. Gallon, 1♀ (QMB S30803).</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="C4A4BD233C74A8025479EE2538A81A84" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="B2ECD4DA4B20B1639BC17FEEC23329E0" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">The specific epithet is a patronym in honour of Alan Rix, for his great assistance in helping to collect this species, and for a lifetime of generosity and support to the senior author.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="32C5F16F3FE84F2EDCBDC699CDEDF353" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="748D83DCE54F715FB4B51CBD6E04FB8F" class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea alani" order="Araneae" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="alani">Austrarchaea alani</taxonomicName>
can be distinguished from all other
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from mid-eastern Australia except
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by the very large, porrect tegular sclerite 3 (TS 3) (Figs 18D-F); and from
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by the short comb of accessory setae on the male chelicerae (Fig. 18C).
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<paragraph id="9EBB87160061A89C3AA8999B3CBC1C7A" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">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 and COII (n = 5): T(684), A(1218), C(1347).</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="E6024D07A1D83873E7E88B757F1D0748" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Description.</paragraph>
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Holotype male: Total length 2.69; leg I femur 2.83; F1/CL ratio 2.68. Cephalothorax reddish-brown; legs tan-brown with darker annulations; abdomen mottled grey-brown and beige, with darker reddish-brown dorsal scute and sclerites (Fig. 18B). Carapace very tall (CH/CL ratio 2.28); 1.06 long, 2.41 high, 0.97 wide;
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0.49 wide; bearing two pairs of rudimentary horns; highest point of pars cephalica (HPC) near posterior margin of
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(ratio of HPC to post-ocular length 0.85), carapace gently sloping anterior to HPC;
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moderately elevated postero-dorsally (post-ocular ratio 0.35) (Fig. 8A). Chelicerae with short comb of accessory setae on anterior face of paturon (Fig. 18C). Abdomen 1.38 long, 0.92 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 18D-F) with broad, obliquely-angled foliate conductor; tegular sclerite 1 (TS 1) relatively short, almost triangular, obscured by conductor in retrolateral view; TS 2 thin, spiniform, longer than TS 1; TS 2a sinuous, largely obscured by TS 2; TS 3 very large, porrect, with broadly-pointed rectangular apex projecting well beyond retro-distal rim of tegulum.
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Allotype female: Total length 3.41; leg I femur 3.06; F1/CL ratio 2.66. Cephalothorax dark reddish-brown; legs tan-brown with darker annulations; abdomen mottled grey-brown and beige (Fig. 18A). Carapace very tall (CH/CL ratio 2.30); 1.15 long, 2.65 high, 1.04 wide;
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0.56 wide; bearing two pairs of rudimentary horns; highest point of pars cephalica (HPC) near posterior margin of
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(ratio of HPC to post-ocular length 0.81), carapace sloping gently anterior to HPC;
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strongly elevated postero-dorsally (post-ocular ratio 0.38) (Fig. 7A). Chelicerae without accessory setae on anterior face of paturon. Abdomen 1.97 long, 1.38 wide; with three pairs of dorsal
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tubercles (HT 1-6). Internal genitalia with dense cluster of ≤ 15 variably shaped spermathecae on either side of gonopore, clusters meeting near midline of genital plate (Fig. 18G); innermost (anterior) spermathecae longest, sausage-shaped, curved antero-laterally; outermost (posterior) spermathecae bulbous; other spermathecae variably pyriform, straight, directed antero-laterally.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="BB29445D2A25D0499D1EA0C772A584ED" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Variation: Males (n=2): total length 2.26-2.69; carapace length 1.03-1.06; carapace height 2.33-2.41; CH/CL ratio 2.28 (invariable). Females (n=4): total length 3.18-3.44; carapace length 1.15-1.18; carapace height 2.58-2.82; CH/CL ratio 2.23-2.39.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="1EFC42BCC9A2AE6228395E1C6F25C387" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="B276C86F42C4483DEB04709D9255EFB5" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">
<taxonomicName id="00FB3A8EA9A473DD4B698F146495C725" class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Austrarchaea" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Austrarchaea alani" order="Araneae" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="alani">Austrarchaea alani</taxonomicName>
is known only from rainforest habitats in the Kroombit Tops National Park of south-eastern Queensland (Fig. 36).
</paragraph>
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Conservation status. This species appears to be a short-range endemic taxon (
<bibRefCitation id="49923CC1B993EAF574F8CD5FC11FD3ED" 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>
), which although potentially restricted in distribution, is abundant within the Kroombit Tops National Park (M. Rix, pers. obs.). It is not considered to be of conservation concern.
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