Lampona dwellingup, 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 : 91

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2000)245<0001:ARAROT>2.0.CO;2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5449338

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B887CE-B401-FF9D-C5D6-76BFE067FE25

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Lampona dwellingup
status

sp. nov.

Lampona dwellingup View in CoL , new species

Figures 190–193 View Figs ; Map 20 View Map 20

TYPE: Female holotype taken in pitfall trap at Dwellingup , 328439S, 1168049E, Western Australia (Mar. 9, 1978; S. Curry), deposited in WAM (95/1065) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: This species resembles L. quinqueplagiata (see above), but can be distinguished by the larger palpal femur bearing a smaller ventral protrusion in males (fig. 191) and the posteriorly depressed epigynal midpiece in females (fig. 192).

MALE: Total length 8.2. Abdominal dorsum with only posterior spot pronounced, anterior pair obscure, median pair obsolete; coxae orange, other leg segments yellow, unmarked. Palpal femur relatively large, with small, elaborate, pointed ventral protrusion; retrolateral tibial apophysis triangular, slightly excavated, situated on side of segment (fig. 191); tegulum globose, extending to half length of tibia, embolar base long, wide, tegulum extending behind embolus and conductor (fig. 190).

FEMALE: Total length 9.5. Coloration as in male. Epigynum with relatively narrow midpiece high anteriorly, greatly depressed posteriorly, lateral margins rounded (fig. 192); spermathecal bulbs oval, situated on extremely long, medially situated, anteriorly expanded ducts (fig. 193).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Western Australia: Dwellingup , 328439S, 1168049E, Jan. 12, 1978, pitfalls (S. Curry, WAM 95 About WAM / 1061–1063), 1?, 2/, Apr. 15, 1978 (J. Majer, WAM 95 About WAM /1066), 1?, May 5, 1978, pitfall (S. Curry, WAM 95 About WAM /1064), 1 ?; Kings Park, Perth , 318579S, 1158529E, Sept. 5, 1962, elev. 100 ft (E. Ross, D. Cavagnaro, CAS), 1 /.

DISTRIBUTION: Southwestern Australia (map 20).

WAM

Western Australian Museum

CAS

California Academy of Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Lamponidae

Genus

Lampona

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