Lampona yanchep, 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 : 78-79

publication ID

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

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B887CE-B416-FF89-C790-716AE067FA93

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Felipe

scientific name

Lampona yanchep
status

sp. nov.

Lampona yanchep View in CoL , new species

Figures 158–161 View Figs ; Map 16 View Map 16

TYPE: Male holotype taken in pitfall trap at Yanchep , 318339S, 1158419E, Western Australia (Feb. 2, 1978; S. Curry), deposited in WAM (95/1106) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of L. taroom in having a subbasal knob protruding from the ventral surface of the palpal femur, but have a shorter retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 159); females also resemble those of L. taroom in having an anterior epigynal excavation, but have the excavation wider and less clearly demarcated posteriorly (fig. 160).

MALE: Total length 7.9. Coloration as in L. cylindrata except white markings on abdominal dorsum connected laterally. Palpal femur with subbasal knob protruding from ventral surface; retrolateral tibial apophysis relatively long, triangular (fig. 159); tegulum globose, extending to one­half length of tibia, embolar base long, gradually narrowed toward tip, prolateral lobe of conductor extending behind embolus (fig. 158).

FEMALE: Total length 6.1. Coloration as in male except posterior portion of abdominal dorsum also with white chevrons. Epigynal atrium almost conical, depressed anteriorly (fig. 160); spermathecae short, tripartite (fig. 161).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Western Australia: Mount Cooke , 328259S, 1168189E, Feb. 17, 1991, along gully at base of mountain, under log (M. Harvey, WAM 95 About WAM /1108), 1 /; Wexcombe, W side Talbot Road , outside NE corner of reserve, 318529S, 1168039E, May 10–June 24, 1993, pitfall (M. Harvey, J. Waldock, WAM 95 About WAM /1107), 1 ?.

DISTRIBUTION: Southwestern Australia (map 16).

WAM

Western Australian Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Lamponidae

Genus

Lampona

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