Pseudolampona jarrahdale, 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 : 309-310

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-B56F-FEF2-C50B-7075E23EFBB5

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scientific name

Pseudolampona jarrahdale
status

sp. nov.

Pseudolampona jarrahdale View in CoL , new species Figures 758–761 View Figs ; Map 86 View Map 86

TYPE: Male holotype from Alcoa minesite and forest, N and NW of Jarrahdale, 328209S, 1168049E, Western Australia (Mar.–Aug. 1993; S. Simmonds), deposited in WAM (96/ 737) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the strongly arched median apophysis (fig. 758), females by the almost u­shaped spermathecae (fig. 761).

MALE: Total length 2.9. Coloration as in P. woodman except abdominal venter with dark markings only around spinnerets. Retrolateral tibial apophysis straight (fig. 759); median apophysis highly arched (fig. 758).

FEMALE: Total length 3.1. Coloration as in male. Epigynum showing pair of darkened posteromedian ducts (fig. 760), spermathecae rotund, almost u­shaped because of large, median projections (fig. 761).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Western Australia: Dwellingup , 328439S, 1168049E, Jan. 12, 1978, pitfall (S. Curry, WAM 96 About WAM / 1530), 1/, Feb. 28, 1979 (S. Curry, WAM 95 About WAM /736), 1 /; 16 km E Dwellingup on Williams Road , 328409S, 1158559E, Feb. 15, 1979 (M. Gray, AMS KS14848 ), 1 /.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Western

Australia (map 86).

WAM

Western Australian Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Lamponidae

Genus

Pseudolampona

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