Notsodipus quobba, 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 : 285

Notsodipus quobba , new species Figures 694–697 ; Map 74

TYPE: Male holotype taken in dry pitfall trap at Quobba Station, Cape Cuvier , 248089S, 1138279E, Western Australia (May 28–June 3, 1995; A. Sampey), deposited in WAM 96 /708 ).

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males have a relatively small lateral prong of the terminal apophysis and a relatively short embolus (fig. 694); females (which have not been collected with males) have a distinctively rectangular epigynum (fig. 696).

MALE: Total length 3.2. Abdominal dorsum gray with scattered tiny white spots, venter unmarked. Leg spination: tibia IV v1p­0­2. Retrolateral tibial apophysis without distinct dorsal protuberance on base (fig. 695); median prong of terminal apophysis very narrow, lateral prong with distal ele­ ments relatively small, embolus relatively short (fig. 694).

FEMALE: Total length 2.4. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: tibia IV r0­0­1. Epigynum rectangular, with v­shaped anterior septum (fig. 696); spermathecae situated posteriorly, coiled (fig. 697).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Western Australia: Coral Bay , 238089S, 1138469E, May 12, 1990, leaf litter (A. Longbottom, WAM 96 /709), 1 ?; Moonyoonooka, near Geraldton , 288469S, 1148439E, Nov. 5, 1998, pitfall (V. Ovtsharenko, J. Waldock, AMNH), 1 /; Quobba Station, Cape Cuvier , 248129S, 1138279E, May 29–June 3, 1995, dry pitfall (A. Sampey, WAM 96 /707), 1 ?.

DISTRIBUTION: Western Australia (map 74).

Figures

Map 74. Records of Notsodipus upstart, new species (circle), N. muckera, new species (squares), and N. quobba, new species (triangles).

Figs. 694–697. Notsodipus quobba, new species. 694. Left male palp, ventral view. 695. Same, retrolateral view. 696. Epigynum, ventral view. 697. Same, dorsal view.