Hemicloeina kapalga, 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-

Hemicloeina kapalga , new species Figures 561–564 ; Map 43

TYPE: Female holotype from Kapalga , 12 ° 36 ̍ S, 132 ° 25 ̍ E, Northern Territory (Nov. 13, 1990; N. Hertog, L. Corbett), deposited in WAM (99/568) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the recurved tip of the retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 562), females by the anteriorly narrowed midpiece occupying most of the epigynal atrium (fig. 563).

MALE: Total length 11. Coloration as in H. somersetensis . Leg spination: femora: II p1­ 0­0; IV p0­0­0; tibiae: I, II v2­2­2; III p1­0­ 0, r0­1­1; IV r1­1­1; metatarsi: III v2­2­2; IV v2­0­2. Retrolateral tibial apophysis with recurved tip (fig. 562); both distal and proxi­ mal prongs of palpal conductor ledged (fig. 561).

FEMALE: Total length 9. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: femora: II r0­0­0; III p0­0­0, r0­0­0; IV p0­0­0; tibiae: III v1p­2­ 2; IV r1­1­1; metatarsi: II 1p­0­0; III v2­2­ 1p. Epigynal atrium containing anteriorly narrowed midpiece (fig. 563); spermathecae with posterior elements oriented transversely (fig. 564).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Northern Territory: Jabiru , 12 ° 40 ̍ S, 132 ° 54 ̍ E, July 5–9, 1977 (R. Pengilley, MNT T003 ), 13 ; 20 mi NW Katherine , 14 ° 28 ̍ S, 132 ° 16 ̍ E, Oct. 26, 1962, elev. 110 m (E. Ross, D. Cavagnaro, CAS), 13 ; South Alligator , 12 ° 40 ̍ S, 132 ° 30 ̍ E, Nov. 10, 1979, open forest (R. Raven, QMB S28476 ), 1♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the Northern Territory (map 43).

Figures

Map 43. Records of Hemicloeina spec, new species (stars), H. kapalga, new species (squares), H. wyndham, new species (circle), and H. bluff, new species (crosses).

Figs. 561–564. Hemicloeina kapalga, new species. 561. Left male palp, ventral view. 562. Same, retrolateral view. 563. Epigynum, ventral view. 564. Same, dorsal view.