Rebilus bunya, 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 bunya , new species Figures 591–594 , 642 ; Map 48

TYPE: Female holotype taken under bark on log in araucaria notophyll vineforest at Bunya Mountains National Park, Dandabah, 26 ° 54 ̍ S, 151 ° 34 ̍ E, Queensland (Mar. 6, 1976), deposited in QMB ( S28462 ).

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the bifid retrolateral tibial apophysis, with two subequal prongs at a right angle to each other (figs. 592, 642), females by the wide, sinuous posterior epigynal margin (fig. 593).

MALE: Total length 10. Coloration as in R. bulburin . Leg spination: femora I–IV p1­1­ 0; tibiae: I, II v1p­1p­2; III v2­2­2; IV v1p­ 2­2, r0­1­0; metatarsi: III v2­0­2; IV v1r­0­ 2. Retrolateral tibial apophysis bifid, with subequal prongs situated at right angles to each other (figs. 592, 642); cymbium without prolateral thickened setae, median apophysis strongly narrowed near tip (fig. 591).

FEMALE: Total length 11. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: femora: II, III p1­1­0; IV p1­0­0; tibiae: I, II v1p­1p­2; III v2­2­2; IV v2­2­2, r1­1­0; metatarsi: III v2­0­2; IV v2­0­2, r1­0­0. Epigynum with wide, medially sinuous posterior margin (fig. 593); epigynal ducts short, sinuous (fig. 594).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: Bunya Mountains National Park , Dandabah, 26 ° 54 ̍ S, 151 ° 34 ̍ E, Sept. 4, 1974 (R. Raven, QMB S28471 ), 2♀, Mar. 6, 1976, under logs, bark, araucaria notophyll vineforest (ex QMB S28462 ), 13, 2♀ ; 60 km NE Dalby, Bunya Mountains , 26 ° 50 ̍ S, 151 ° 33 ̍ E, June 17–Aug. 19, 1982, flight intercept, auracaria forest (S., J. Peck, AMNH), 13 .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the Bun­

ya Mountains in southeastern Queensland (map 48).

Figures

Map 48. Records of Rebilus bunya, new species (circle) and R. bilpin, new species (squares).

Figs. 591–594. Rebilus bunya, new species. 591. Left male palp, ventral view. 592. Same, retrolateral view. 593. Epigynum, ventral view. 594. Same, dorsal view.

Figs. 642–644. Left male palpal tibia and proximal portion of tarsus, dorsal views. 642. Rebilus bunya, new species. 643. R. binnaburra, new species. 644. R. glorious, new species.