Paralampona renmark, PLATNICK, 2000

PLATNICK, NORMAN I., 2000, A Relimitation And Revision Of The Australasian Ground Spider Family Lamponidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2000 (245), pp. 1-328 : 327

Paralampona renmark , new species Figures 816–819 ; Map 93

TYPE: Male holotype taken in flight intercept trap at a site 79 km NNW Renmark, 338319S, 1408249E, South Australia (Aug. 9– Sept. 7, 1995; K. Pullen), deposited in QMB .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.

DIAGNOSIS: Males and females have not been taken together. Males of this distinctive species can be recognized by the distally sinuous retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 817) and the long, doubly twisted embolus (fig. 816), females by the posterolateral spermathecal lobes (fig. 818, 819).

MALE: Total length 2.1. Abdominal dorsum dark gray except near anterolateral corners, where pale, venter white, legs pale yellow. Palpal femur expanded, hirsute distally, retrolateral tibial apophysis sinuous, abruptly narrowed at tip (fig. 817); embolus long, twisted twice (fig. 816).

FEMALE: Total length 2.4. Abdomen light gray, legs pale yellow. Epigynal hood triangular, prominent (fig. 818); spermathecae with posterolaterally directed lobes (fig. 819).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: New South Wales: Parriwi Park, Mosman, 338499S, 1518149E, June 6, 1992, litter (G. Hunt, AMS KS49488), 1/.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from eastern South Australia and New South Wales (map 93).

Figures

Map 93. Records of Paralampona wogwog, new species (circle) and P. renmark, new species (squares).

Figs. 816–819. Paralampona renmark, new species. 816. Left male palp, ventral view. 817. Same, retrolateral view. 818. Epigynum, ventral view. 819. Same, dorsal view.