Desognaphosa halcyon, 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-

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2002)271<0001:AROTAG>2.0.CO;2

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EAE52A-FFC2-A63D-801E-26FED8AF4872

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scientific name

Desognaphosa halcyon
status

sp. nov.

Desognaphosa halcyon , new species Figures 263–266 View Figs ; Map 16 View Map 16

TYPES: Female holotype and female paratype taken in a Berlese sample of rainforest litter from a site at an elevation on 870 m on Mount Halcyon , 16 ° 03 ̍ S, 145 ° 25 ̍ E, Queensland (Nov. 24, 1993; G. Monteith, H. Janetzki), deposited in QMB ( S28751 View Materials ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the beak­shaped tip of the terminal palpal elements (fig. 263), females by the broadly oval epigynal atrium (fig. 265).

MALE: Total length 7.4. Coloration as in D. malbon . Leg spination: tibiae: III v2­2­2; IV v2­2­2, r0­1­1; metatarsi: III v2­0­2; IV p0­1­0, v2­2­2, r0­1­0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis directed dorsally, with bifid tip, paracymbial apophysis long, with recurved tip (fig. 264); embolus short, twisted terminal elements of bulb with beak­shaped tip (fig. 263).

FEMALE: Total length 6.5. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: tibiae: III v2­2­2; IV v2­2­2, r0­1­1; metatarsi: III v2­0­2; IV p0­ 1­0, v2­2­2, r0­1­0. Epigynal atrium broadly oval (fig. 265), median ducts reaching fully to side of atrium (fig. 266).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: 4.5–5.0 km W Cape Tribulation , 16 ° 05 ̍ S, 145 ° 26 ̍ E, Oct. 1, 1982, Berlese, sieved rainforest litter, elev. 760–780 m (G. Monteith, D. Yeates, G. Thompson, QMB S26675 View Materials ), 1♀ ; Mount Halcyon , 16 ° 03 ̍ S, 145 ° 25 ̍ E, Nov. 22–24, 1993, pitfalls, elev. 870 m (D. Cook, G. Monteith, H. Janetzki, Roberts, QMB S28766 View Materials ), 23 ; Mount Pieter Botte , 16 ° 04 ̍ S, 145 ° 24 ̍ E, Nov. 21, 1993, pyrethrum knockdown, trees, logs, rocks, elev. 950 m (G. Monteith, H. Janetzki, QMB S28756 View Materials ), 1♀ ; Mount Sorrow plateau, 16 ° 05 ̍ S, 145 ° 26 ̍ E, Dec. 10, 1993, Berlese, sieved rainforest litter, elev. 750 m (G. Monteith, QMB S28753 View Materials ), 1♀ ; Mount Sorrow summit, Cape Tribulation , 16 ° 06 ̍ S, 145 ° 26 ̍ E, Oct. 19, 1980, Berlese, sieved rainforest litter, elev. 800 m (G. Monteith, QMB S26649 View Materials ), 1♀ ; Roaring Meg Valley , 16 ° 04 ̍ S, 145 ° 25 ̍ E, Nov. 20–22, 1993, pitfall, elev. 680 m (G. Monteith, D. Cook, H. Janetzki, Roberts, QMB S28764 View Materials ), 13 .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the Cape Tribulation area of northeastern Queensland (map 16).

QMB

Queensland Museum, Brisbane

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