Asadipus banjiwarn, PLATNICK, 2000

PLATNICK, NORMAN I., 2000, A Relimitation And Revision Of The Australasian Ground Spider Family Lamponidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2000 (245), pp. 1-328 : 258-260

Asadipus banjiwarn , new species

Figures 610–613 ; Map 65

TYPES: Female holotype and male allotype from mallee, mulga, and triodia assemblage at Banjiwarn , 278489S, 1218409E, Western Australia (May 1979; R. How), deposited in WAM (96/644, 645) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males of this distinctive, small species can be recognized easily by the widened palpal bulb, with the terminal apophysis widely overlapping the embolus (fig. 610), females by the large epigynal openings and medially coiled epigynal ducts (figs. 612, 613).

MALE: Total length 3.8. Coloration as in A. phaleratus , with clypeus area anteriorly produced. Leg spination: tibiae: III p0­0­0, v0­0­1p, r0­0­0; IV p0­0­0, v1p­1p­1p, r0­0­ 0; metatarsi: III v0­0­0, IV v0­1p­0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis extending about onehalf of cymbial length (fig. 611); ventral portion of terminal apophysis overlapping embolus in ventral view, dorsal portion almost sickle­shaped, median apophysis originating on recessed ledge (fig. 610).

FEMALE: Total length 5.0. Coloration as in A. phaleratus . Leg spination: tibiae III, IV p0­0­0, v0­0­1p, r0­0­0; metatarsi III, IV v0­ 0­0. Epigynum with large, anteriorly directed openings (fig. 612); ducts irregularly coiling between and anterior of spermathecae (fig. 613).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Western Australia: Banjiwarn , 278489S, 1218419E, May 26–31, 1974, mulga, eremophila, bunchgrass (R. How, WAM 96 /643), 1 ?; Barlee Range Nature Reserve , 238069S, 1168009E, June 19–22, 1994, dry pitfall (P., G. Kendrick, WAM 96 /646), 1 ?; Bidgemia Station, Gasgoyne Junction , 258079S, 1158269E, June 6–Aug. 20, 1995, pitfalls (N. Hall, WAM 96 /642), 1 /; Boolathana Station , 248259S, 1138409E, May 28–June 2, 1995, dry pitfall (J. Waldock, WAM 96 /649), 1 ?; Boolathana Station , 248259S, 1138469E, May 31–Aug. 25, 1995, pitfall (N. Hall, WAM 96 /650), 1?, Aug. 20–Sept. 30, 1994, pitfall (A. Sampey, WAM 96 /648), 1 /; Bush Bay , 258079S, 1138489E, May 23–Aug. 23, 1995, pitfall (H. Hall, WAM 96 /647), 1 ?; Cape Cuvier, Quobba Station , 248089S, 1138279E, May 31–Aug. 25, 1995, pitfall (N. Hall, WAM 96 /652), 1 ?; Cape Cuvier, Quobba Station , 248129S, 1138279E, Aug. 21–Sept. 29, 1995, pitfall (P. West, WAM 96 / 653), 1 ?; Cape Cuvier, Quobba Station , 248139S, 1138309E, May 30–Aug. 24, 1995, pitfall (N. Hall, WAM 96 /651), 1 ?; Edel Land , 268159S, 1138199E, Sept. 9–14, 1989 (G. Harold, WAM 96 /641), 1 ?; Francois Peron National Park , 258539S, 1138339E, May 22–27, 1995, dry pitfall (M. Harvey, WAM 96 /654), 1 ?; Kennedy Range National Park , 248309S, 1158019E, May 27–June 1, 1995, dry pitfall (P. West, WAM 96 /656), 1 ?; Kennedy Range National Park , 248309S, 1158029E, May 27–June 1, 1995, dry pitfall (P. West, WAM 96 /655), 1 ?; Mardathuna Station , 248249S, 1148289E, May 23–May 28, 1995, dry pitfall (A. Sampey, WAM 96 /658), 1?, May 24–Aug. 26, 1995, pitfall (N. Hall, WAM 96 /657), 1 ?; Yundamindra , 298239S, 1228289E, July 1981, mulga/shrubs (W. Humphreys, WAM 96 /659), 1 ?; Yundamindra , 298249S, 1228289E, July 1981, pitfall, mallee, mulga, triodia (W. Humphreys, WAM 96 /684), 1 /; Zuytdorp , 278159S, 1148129E, May 17–Aug. 16, 1995, pitfall (N. Hall, WAM 96 /660), 1 /; Zuytdorp , 278169S, 1148029E, May 18–Aug. 17, 1995, pitfall (N. Hall, WAM 96 /661), 1 /.

DISTRIBUTION: Western Australia (map 65).

Figures

Map 65. Records of Graycassis bruxner, new species (circles), Asadipus banjiwarn, new species (squares), and A. longforest, new species (triangles).

Figs. 610–613. Asadipus banjiwarn, new species. 610. Left male palp, ventral view. 611. Same, retrolateral view. 612. Epigynum, ventral view. 613. Same, dorsal view.