Helpis kenilworthi, Żabka, 2002

Żabka, Marek, 2002, Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, XV. New Species of Astieae from Australia, Records of the Australian Museum 54, pp. 257-268 : 260

Helpis kenilworthi n.sp.

Fig. 4

Type material. HOLOTYPE Australia: Queensland: ♀, Kenilworth State Forest, Sunday Creel Rd, junction with Higher Creek Rd , 26°41'54"S 152°33'05"E, wet sclerophyll forest, 7 May 1998, G. Milledge, AMS KS56429 . PARATYPES Australia: Queensland: ♀, Kenilworth SF, Sunday Creek Rd, 9.8 km W of Charlie Moreland Park, wet sclerophyll forest, 26°40'11"S 152°36'35"E, 6 May 1998, GM, AMS KS52186 . New South Wales: ♀, Macquarie Pass NP, 34°S 150°39'E, wet sclerophyll forest, under fibre bark, 12 Sep 1999, BB, MŻ, AMS KS67503 ; 2♀, Sydney, Royal NP, 34°8'S 151°39'E, under bark, 24 Mar 1988, MŻ, AMS KS67504 .

Diagnosis. Differs from other species by missing posterior abdominal light patch. Genitalia without long insemination ducts.

Description

Female holotype (Fig. 4A). Cephalothorax rather flat, generally brown, eye field lighter with white hairs, along thorax yellow stripe, eye surrounding black. Whole surface with quite numerous fine brown hairs and less numerous bristles—especially in anterior part. Abdomen grey-brown with yellow central pattern and with longitudinal rows of

light spots laterally. Spinnerets long, smudged orange. Hairs sparse—brownish. Clypeus brown with some brown bristles. Chelicerae dark-brown, lighter apically with 5 promarginal and 9 retromarginal teeth ( Fig. 4B). Pedipalps orange, clothed with light, grey and brown hairs and with a dorsal tarsal spine. Maxillae and labium elongate, the former twice as long as the latter, both brown with lighter apices. Sternum smudged orange. Venter yellow. Femora and tarsi I yellow, other podomeres honey-orange, tibiae with 4 proventral and 3–4 retroventral spines, metatarsi with 2 pairs of spines. Other legs yellow-orange. Legs not particularly hairy, brownish. Epigyne ( Fig. 4C–E) very distinctive with anterior pocket-like cavities leading to short insemination ducts accompanied by accessory glands. Spermathecae pearshaped. Posteriorly single central pocket visible after epigyne is cleared. Dimensions: CL 3.12, EFL 1.30, AEW 2.02, PEW 1.82, CW 2.39, AL 4.68.

Distribution ( Fig. 2). Known from single localities in Queensland and New South Wales where it has been found on tree trunks in wet sclerophyll forests.