Wandella orana Gray 1994

Ivan L. F. Magalhaes, 2016, On new or poorly known Australian Filistatidae spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae), including a study on the fine morphology of Wandella, Journal of Natural History 50 (29 - 30), pp. 1815-1858 : 40

Wandella orana Gray 1994

( Figures 11 F, G, 15)

Wandella orana Gray 1994 , p. 45, figs. 3, 4, 5, 7, 13, 14, 16, 24 – 26, 42 – 51.

Male holotype from Mount Colah, NSW, 33°40' S, 151°07' E, 1/II/1980, M.R. Gray, wandering on shed floor, deposited in AM KS.4659, not examined.

Distribution

Eastern New South Wales; newly recorded from southern Queensland ( Figure 15 ).

Material examined

Australia. New South Wales: Hornsby, Waitara Creek, leaf litter sample (151.0894°, −33.7144°), H.M. Smith, 3/I/2009, with egg sac, 1 ♀ (AM KS.107093); with egg sac, 1 ♀ (AM KS.107094); 1 ♀ (AM KS.107130); with egg sac, 1 ♀ (AM KS.107095); Lalor Park, in garden, behind bags of soil (150.92°, −33.75°), G. Smith, 7/IX/2013, 1 ♂ (AM KS. 120894); Lower Creek, west of Armidale – Kempsey Rd, hand collected (152.2375°, −30.7531°), H. M. Smith, S. Crews, B.J. Day, 26/II/2009, 1 ♀ (AM KS.107599); Upper Hunter River, Denman Vineyard at Denman, pitfall trap (150.73833°, −32.34333°), J. Gollan, 23/XI – 9/ XII/2004, 1 ♂ (AM KS.92378); Warrumbungle NP, Camp Pincham car park, hand collected (149°, −31.3°), H.M. Smith, 19/II/2007, 1 ♀ (AM KS. 100973). Queensland: Windermere Station, night collection (149.75°, −27.28333°), R. Raven, 18/XII/1990, 1 ♂ (QM S86304 ).

Figures

Figure 11. Scanning electron microscopy, right male palps. (A – E) Wandella murrayensis Gray 1994 from Lower Murray-Darling Region, New South Wales (AM KS. 71427). (A) Prolateral. (B) Bulb and cymbium, prolateral. Inset showing tegular micro-teeth. (C) Bulb and cymbium, dorsal. (D) Embolus, ventrolateral. (E) Embolus, retrolateral. (F, G) Wandella orana Gray 1994 from Upper Hunter River, New South Wales (AM KS. 92378). (F) Bulb and cymbium, prolateral. Inset showing tegular microteeth. (G) Bulb and cymbium, dorsal. Inset showing embolus, ventrolateral. Abbreviations: Cy, cymbium; E, embolus; ES, embolus slit; Ex, tegular excavation; O, embolus opening; PL, paraembolic lamina; TW, tegular wrinkles.

Figure 15. Distribution maps for Australian filistatids (including records by Gray 1994). Above: triangles = Wandella barbarella, white circles = Wandella diamentina, stars = Wandella grayi, black circles = Wandella murrayensis, asterisks = Wandella orana, crosses = Wandella parnabyi, white squares = Wandella waldockae. Below: triangles = Wandella alinjarra, black circles = Wandella australiensis, asterisks = Wandella centralis, star = Wandella infernalis, cross = Wandella pallida, white circles = Wandella stuartensis, squares = Yardiella humphreysi.