Asadipus julia, 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 : 267-268

Asadipus julia , new species

Figures 642–645 ; Map 63

TYPE: Female holotype taken in sheep shed at Julia Creek , 208409S, 1418459E, Queensland (May 1985; P. Chapman), deposited in QMB ( S26519 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: This species resembles A. humptydoo and A. bucks in having a rela­ tively unexpanded male palpal bulb and short retrolateral tibial apophysis; males can be distinguished by the more rounded ventral prong of the terminal apophysis (fig. 642), females by anteriorly enlarged and folded epigynal ducts (fig. 645).

MALE: Total length 4.7. Coloration as in A. phaleratus . Leg spination: tibiae III, IV p0­0­0, v0­1p­1p, r0­0­0; metatarsi: III v0­0­ 0; IV v1p­0­0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis reaching to about one­fourth of cymbial length (fig. 643); ventral prong of terminal apophysis relatively short, rounded, dorsal prong long, not basally widened (fig. 642).

FEMALE: Total length 7.3. Coloration as in A. phaleratus . Leg spination: tibiae III, IV p0­0­0, v0­0­2, r0­0­0; metatarsi III, IV v0­ 0­0. Epigynum resembling that of A. humptydoo in having triangular anterior hood and anteromedian portion of atrial surface heavily sclerotized, but ducts much shorter (figs. 644, 645).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Northern Territory: Helen Springs Station, Barkly Tablelands, 188269S, 1338529E, Mar. 1996, pitfall (T. Churchill, CSID A0433), 1?.

DISTRIBUTION: Northern Territory and western Queensland (map 63).

Figures

Map 63. Records of Graycassis styx, new species (circle), Asadipus barlee, new species (squares), and A. julia, new species (triangles).

Figs. 642–645. Asadipus julia, new species. 642. Left male palp, ventral view. 643. Same, retrolateral view. 644. Epigynum, ventral view. 645. Same, dorsal view.