Rebilus monteithi, PLATNICK, 2002

PLATNICK, NORMAN I., 2002, A Revision Of The Australasian Ground Spiders Of The Families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, And Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2002 (271), pp. 1-1 : 1-

Rebilus monteithi , new species Figures 627–630 , 651 ; Map 50

TYPE: Female holotype taken in rainforest pitfall at Cherry Tree State Forest, via Mallanganee , 28 ° 53 ̍ S, 152 ° 45 ̍ E, New South Wales (Oct. 2, 1978 – Feb. 22, 1979; G., S. Monteith), deposited in QMB ( S28479 ) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of Dr. Geoff Monteith of the Queensland Museum, collector of many fascinating gnaphosoids.

DIAGNOSIS: Males and females have not been collected together but are tentatively matched here on the basis of geography, their relatively small size, and their relatively pale coloration. Males have a distinctive retrolaterally bent tip on the terminal apophysis (fig. 627), females have distinctive laterally produced median bulbs on the epigynal ducts (fig. 630).

MALE: Total length 9. Carapace light brown, abdomen gray, leg coxae and palps yellow. Leg spination unknown (single known male missing all distal leg segments). Basal tibial apophysis relatively small, squared, distal apophysis small, with sinuous tip (figs. 628, 651); tip of terminal apophysis bent at 90 ° angle (fig. 627).

FEMALE: Total length 13. Coloration as in male except carapace reddish brown. Leg spination: femora I–III p1­1­0; tibiae: I, II v1p­1p­2; III v1p­2­2; IV v1p­2­2, r0­1­1; metatarsi: III p0­0­1, v2­0­1p; IV p0­0­1, v2­ 0­1p, r1­0­0. Epigynal septum almost diamond­shaped (fig. 629); laterally directed bulbs at about half of epigynal length extending far to sides of ducts (fig. 630).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: New South Wales: Cherry Tree State Forest, via Mallanganee , 28 ° 53 ̍ S, 152 ° 45 ̍ E, Oct. 2, 1978 – Feb. 22, 1979, rainforest pitfall (G., S. Monteith, QMB S28479 ), 1♀ ; Jackybulbin Flat Road, 0.3 km S junction Range Road, Doubleduke State Forest , 29 ° 14 ̍ S, 153 ° 09 ̍ E, Feb. 4–Apr. 9, 1993, pitfall, elev. 10 m (M. Gray, G. Cassis, AMS KS42057 ), 13 .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from northern New South Wales (map 50).

Figures

Map 50. Records of Rebilus glorious, new species (square) and R. monteithi, new species (stars).

Figs. 627–630. Rebilus monteithi, new species. 627. Left male palp, ventral view. 628. Same, retrolateral view. 629. Epigynum, ventral view. 630. Same, dorsal view.

Figs. 651–653. Left male palpal tibia and proximal portion of tarsus, dorsal views. 651. Rebilus monteithi, new species. 652. R. griswoldi, new species. 653. R. grayi, new species.