Meedo harveyi, PLATNICK, 2002

PLATNICK, NORMAN I., 2002, A Revision Of The Australasian Ground Spiders Of The Families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, And Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2002 (271), pp. 1-1 : 1-

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2002)271<0001:AROTAG>2.0.CO;2

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EAE52A-FFBD-A644-8001-20EDDAFD4CBA

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Felipe

scientific name

Meedo harveyi
status

sp. nov.

Meedo harveyi , new species Figures 61–64 View Figs ; Map 4 View Map 4

TYPES: Male holotype and female allotype taken in pitfall traps at Zuytdorp , 27 ° 16 ̍ S, 114 ° 01 ̍ E, Western Australia (Aug. 26–Oct. 15, 1994; A. Sampey), deposited in WAM (99/295, 296) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of Dr. Mark Harvey of the Western Australian Museum, who first recognized the species as new.

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be distinguished from those of all other species by the small, hook­shaped retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 62) and wide, tapered embolus (fig. 61), females by the posteriorly rounded epigynal atrium (fig. 63).

MALE: Total length 5.0. Coloration as in M. houstoni . Chelicerae vertical, endites relatively short. Tarsi III with cuticular cracks. Retrolateral tibial apophysis short, hookshaped (fig. 62); embolus wide, uniformly tapered from base to point near tip, tip distinctly narrowed (fig. 61).

FEMALE: Total length 6.2. Coloration and mouthparts as in male. All tarsi entire. Epigynum with anteromedian hood and pocket, atrium posteriorly rounded (fig. 63); anterior spermathecal extensions large, extending anteriorly to level of epigynal hood (fig. 64).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Western Australia: Edel Land , 26 ° 32 ̍ S, 113 ° 32 ̍ E, Jan. 17–May 9, 1995, pitfall (A. Sampey, WAM 99 About WAM /304), 1♀ ; Trigg Dune Bush , 31 ° 53 ̍ S, 115 ° 45 ̍ E, Nov. 28, 1995 – Jan. 29, 1996, pitfall (M. Harvey, J. Waldock, WAM 99 About WAM /305), 13 ; Zuytdorp , 27 ° 16 ̍ S, 114 ° 01 ̍ E, Aug. 26–Oct. 15, 1994, pitfalls (A. Sampey, WAM 99 About WAM /297–303), 53, 1♀ ; Zuytdorp , 27 ° 16 ̍ S, 114 ° 02 ̍ E, Aug. 26–Oct. 15, 1994 ,

pitfalls (A. Sampey, WAM 99/306–309), 33, 1♀.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Western Australia (map 4).

WAM

Western Australian Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Gallieniellidae

Genus

Meedo

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