Hemicloeina spec, 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 spec , new species Figures 549–552 ; Map 43

TYPE: Female holotype taken in a eucalypt­casuarina mixed rainforest on Paluma Road, Mount Spec , 18 ° 58 ̍ S, 146 ° 10 ̍ E, Queensland (Sept. 3, 1988; J. Gallon, R. Raven, T. Churchill), deposited in QMB ( S26421 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males and females have not been taken together, but are matched here on the basis of geographic proximity. Males can be recognized by having the proximal prong of the palpal conductor much wider than the distal prong (fig. 549), females by the deeply excavated epigynal atrium (resembling, in that regard, some Morebilus species ) and relatively short, wide spermathecae (figs. 551, 552).

MALE: Total length 8. Coloration as in H. somersetensis except legs grayish brown. Leg spination: femora: I–III p1­0­0, r0­0­0; IV p0­0­0; tibiae: I, II v2­2­2; IV p0­0­0, r1­1­1; metatarsi: I v2­2­0; III v2­2­2; IV v2­1p­2, r1­1­0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis short, broadly triangular (fig. 550); distal prong of palpal conductor very narrow, proximal prong much wider, excavated (fig. 549).

FEMALE: Total length 18. Coloration as in H. somersetensis except legs reddish brown. Leg spination: femora: I d1­0­0, p0­0­0, r0­ 0­0; II p0­0­0; III r0­0­0; IV p1­1­0; tibiae: I v1p­2­1p; II v1p­2­0; III v1p­1p­2; IV p0­ 0­0, v1p­1p­2; metatarsi: III v2­0­2; IV v0­ 0­1p; r0­0­0. Epigynal atrium deeply excavated, with longitudinal, elevated ridge along midline (fig. 551); spermathecae relatively short, wide (fig. 552).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: Thatch Creek, 19 ° 06 ̍ S, 145 ° 18 ̍ E, July 26– Dec. 1, 1992, pitfall, dry eucalypt forest (R. Raven, P., E. Lawless, M. Shaw, QMB S25281 ), 13.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Queensland (map 43).

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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. 549–552. Hemicloeina spec, new species. 549. Left male palp, ventral view. 550. Same, retrolateral view. 551. Epigynum, ventral view. 552. Same, dorsal view.