Lampona garnet, 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 : 84-85

Lampona garnet , new species

Figures 174–177 ; Map 18

TYPE: Female holotype from Forty Mile Scrub, SW Mount Garnet , 188059S, 1448519E, Queensland (Apr. 10–14, 1978; R. Raven, V. Davies), deposited in QMB ( S28096 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of L. mildura in having a basally widened retrolateral tibial apophysis, but that apophysis is longer and bent below its tip (fig. 175); females also resemble those of L. mildura but have a more distinct anterior epigynal margin and more evenly triangular epigynal midpiece (fig. 176) as well as smaller median portions of the spermathecae (fig. 177).

MALE: Total length 5.8. Abdominal dorsum with anterior and median white spots fused into longitudinal stripes; all femora and tibiae darkened distally. Palpal femur unmarked, unmodified; retrolateral tibial apophysis with sinuous tip (fig. 175); tegulum globose, extending to about half of tibial length; embolus twisted, with tip extending dorsally before returning to ventral side of bulb (fig. 174).

FEMALE: Total length 6.8. Abdominal dorsum light anteriorly, with median white markings posteriorly; legs as in male. Epigynum with semicircular anterior margin (fig. 176); spermathecae short, tripartite, with anterior portion on twisted neck (fig. 177).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: The male tentatively associated with the holotype was taken at Trovers (coordinates unknown, possibly Travers Island, Torres Strait, 108229S, 1428229E) in northeastern Queensland on Apr. 6, 1986 (J. Turner, QMB S30189 ).

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from northeastern Queensland (map 18).

Figures

Map 18. Records of Lampona olga, new species (circle), L. garnet, new species (square), and L. mildura, new species (triangles).

Figs. 174–177. Lampona garnet, new species. 174. Left male palp, ventral view. 175. Same, retrolateral view. 176. Epigynum, ventral view. 177. Same, dorsal view.