PSEUDOLAMPONINAE, 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 : 302

PSEUDOLAMPONINAE , NEW SUBFAMILY

TYPE GENUS: Pseudolampona , new genus.

DIAGNOSIS: Members of this subfamily are easily distinguished from both lamponines and centrothelines by the absence of a deep groove on the median surface of the palpal endites, as well as by the tiny, inconspicuous postepigastric sclerites. Because of their very small size and elevated carapace, they look at first glance more like textricellines than lamponids, but their typically gnaphosoid posterior median eyes easily separate them from textricellines.

DISTRIBUTION: Australia, including Tasmania (but not yet recorded from the Northern Territory).

INCLUDED GENERA: Pseudolampona and Paralampona , new genera.

KEY TO GENERA OF PSEUDOLAMPONINAE

1. Abdomen usually with dark chevrons; males with patch of extremely thick, scalelike setae on posterior half of sternum and large median apophysis on palp; epigynum with lateral pockets........ Pseudolampona

– Abdomen usually unpatterned; males without