Lampona ooldea, 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 : 93-94

Lampona ooldea , new species

Figures 198–201 ; Map 21

TYPE: Female holotype from Ooldea , 308279S, 1318509E, South Australia (July 1921; J. Rushaw), deposited in NMV ( K3431 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males and females have not been taken together and may be mismatched, but both resemble the preceding three spe­ cies; males differ in having a low, rounded subbasal protuberance on the palpal femur (fig. 199), females in having a much shorter epigynal midpiece (fig. 200).

MALE: Total length 7.6. Coloration as in L. cylindrata but with paired white abdominal stripes reduced to spots. Palpal femur with sinuously bulging ventral protuberance; retrolateral tibial apophysis dorsally angular, bearing ventral tooth (fig. 199); tegulum globose, extending to about one­third of tibial length; embolar tip long, abruptly narrowed, prolaterally situated (fig. 198).

FEMALE: Total length 8.0. Coloration as in male. Epigynal midpiece very short, greatly widened anteriorly, lateral margins very short, rounded (fig. 200); anterior portion of spermathecae bulbous (fig. 201).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Victoria: McLellands Road, 0.1 km N Rathbones Road, 368099S, 1458149E, July 18–23, 1994, pitfall (S. Hinkley, P. Lillywhite, G. Milledge, NMVS), 1? .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from southern South Australia and Victoria (map 21).

Figures

Map 21. Records of Lampona ooldea, new species (circles) and L. gilles, new species (squares).

Figs. 198–201. Lampona ooldea, new species. 198. Left male palp, ventral view. 199. Same, retrolateral view. 200. Epigynum, ventral view. 201. Same, dorsal view.