Queenvic mackay, 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 : 209-211

Queenvic mackay , new species Figures 510–513 ; Map 57

TYPES: Female holotype and male allotype taken in Berlese sample of Acacia harpophylla litter 90 mi S Mackay, 218099S, 1498129E, Queensland (July 18, 1968; L. Mound), deposited in QMB .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the long, narrow, ventrally convex retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 511), females by the transverse anterior loops of the epigynal ducts situated far from the epigynal hood (figs. 512).

MALE: Total length 2.8. Abdominal dorsum with pair of white spots at anterolateral corners and pair of transverse white stripes at about one­third of length; venter gray with two paramedian longitudinal rows of orange sclerites; anterior femora, posterior femora through metatarsi darkened laterally. Leg spination typical for genus. Retrolateral tibial apophysis long, narrow (fig. 511); conductor with two retrolaterally directed processes, anterior one heavily sclerotized (fig. 510).

FEMALE: Total length 3.0. Coloration as in male. Leg spination typical for genus. Epigynal hood situated far anterior of ducts (fig. 512); anterior portion of epigynal ducts oriented transversely (fig. 513).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: New South Wales: Nandewar Range, 40 km E Narrabri on Bingara­Narrabi Road, 308109S, 1508519E, Oct. 1, 1990, litter, open forest 3 km from road (J. Thompson, AMS K29915 ), 1/. Queensland: Boggomoss, Taroom District , 258289S, 1508019E, Sept. 10–Nov. 11, 1996, pitfall, field (P. Lawless, QMB S34306 ), 1 /; Braemar State Forest , 278139S, 1508509E, Feb. 4–8, 1980 (R. Raven, QMB S26494 ), 1?, 1 /; Keysland , 268129S, 1518449E, Sept. 29–Dec. 5, 1994, intercept trap, open forest (G. Monteith, QMB S34311 ), 1 ?; Lake Broadwater, via Dalby , 278219S, 1518069E, Jan. 26–Feb. 18, 1985, pitfall ( QMB S28611 ), 1/, Feb. 19–Mar. 26, 1985, pitfall (M. Bennie, QMB S34308 ), 1/, Mar. 25–May 16, 1985, pitfalls ( QMB S30486 ), 2?, 1/, May 16–Nov. 23, 1985, pitfalls ( QMB S28591 ), 8?, 9/, Nov. 24, 1985 – Jan. 3, 1986, pitfalls (M. Bennie, QMB S34307 , S30496 ), 1?, 6/, Jan. 3–Feb. 25, 1986, pitfalls (M. Bennie, QMB S30495 ), 5?, 9/, Feb. 25–Apr. 22, 1986, pitfalls (M. Bennie, QMB S30497 ), 5?, 3/, Apr. 22– June 12, 1986, pitfalls (M. Bennie, QMB S28598 ), 3?, 1 /; 7 km N Ooline Scrub, Taroom District, 258369S, 1498469E, Sept. 11– Nov. 12, 1996, pitfall, roadside (P. Lawless, QMB S34309 ), 1?, Nov. 12, 1996 – Jan. 13, 1997, pitfall, roadside (P. Lawless, QMB S36686 ), 4?, 4/. South Australia: between Bucks Camp Well and Rabbit Island, Mount Rescue Conservation Park , 358569S, 1408199E, Mar. 18, 1992, vibration (D. Hirst, SAM N1997 /84), 1 /; Dudley Conservation Park, Kangaroo Island , 358489S, 1378519E, Nov. 5–11, 1990 (E. Matthews, J. Forrest, SAM N1997 /81), 1 ?; Dudley Conservation Park, Kangaroo Island , 358489S, 1378529E, Nov. 11–12, 1987 (D. Hirst, SAM N1997 / 126, 127), 2 /; 2.4 km SE Graythwaite High School , 368079S, 1408449E, Dec. 12–15, 1995, pitfall ( SAM N1997 /82), 1 /; Renmark, 348119S, 1408459E ( QMB), 1 /; Telford Scrub Conservation Park , 308289S, 1388259E, Feb. 12, 1995 (T. Collins, SAM N1997 /83), 1 /.

DISTRIBUTION: Mid­eastern Queensland south to eastern South Australia (map 57).

Figures

Map 57. Records of Queenvic mackay, new species.

Figs. 510–513. Queenvic mackay, new species. 510. Left male palp, ventral view. 511. Same, retrolateral view. 512. Epigynum, ventral view. 513. Same, dorsal view.