Notsodipus broadwater, 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 : 280-281

Notsodipus broadwater , new species Figures 674, 675 ; Map 76

TYPE: Male holotype taken in pitfall trap at Lake Broadwater, via Dalby , 278219S, 1518069E, Queensland (May 17–Nov. 24, 1985; M. Bennie), deposited in QMB ( S34338 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males of this distinctive species can easily be recognized by the large, rounded, membranous ventral prong of the terminal apophysis (fig. 674).

MALE: Total length 3.2. Abdominal dorsum with three pairs of small, pale, anterior spots and few pale posterior chevrons showing through scutum, venter with two longitudinal rows of small, orange, circular sclerites. Leg spination typical for genus. Retrolateral tibial apophysis long, narrow (fig. 675); median prong of terminal apophysis long, membranous except along dorsal edge, tegulum with prolaterally situated lobe (fig. 674).

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: One male taken with the type (QMB S34339 ).

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from southeastern Queensland (map 76).

Figures

Map 76. Records of Notsodipus broadwater, new species (circle), and N. renmark, new species (squares).

Figs. 674–677. 674, 675. Notsodipus broadwater, new species. 676, 677. Longepi durin, new species. 674, 676. Left male palp, ventral view. 675, 677. Same, retrolateral view.