Wandella barbarella 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 : 38

Wandella barbarella Gray 1994

( Figures 14 B, 15)

Wandella barbarella Gray 1994 , p. 43, figs. 1, 2, 7, 11, 15, 17 – 19, 22, 23, 30 – 37, 57 – 60, 81, 95.

Male holotype from Waylunga National Park, 31°46' S, 116°01' E, Upper Swan, WA, 27/II/1979, M. Gray, small sheet web under bark of Eucalyptus wandoo on banks of Swan River, WA, deposited in WAM, not examined. Paratype males and females from the same locality (AM KS.3977), examined.

Distribution

Western Australia ( Figure 15 ); the new records extend the distribution of the species significantly both to the north and to the east.

Material examined

Australia. Western Australia: 46 km east of Leonora, site 2b (121.79581°, −28.86225°), M. Peterson & K. George, 8 – 16/X/2007, 1 ♂ ( WAM T89448); c. 40 km southwest of Ajana, Ogilvie Road, west, site NO11 (114.19444°, −27.99139°), P. Van Heurck et al., IX/ 15/IX/ 1998 – 30/III/1999, 2 ♂ 2 ♀ 1 imm. ( WAM T133082); Cape Range, cave C-15 (113.97556°, −22.21278°, m), W.F. Humphreys, R.D. Brooks & R. L ’ Heureux, 13/VIII/1992, 1 ♀ ( WAM T132987); Jack Hills area, Mathew Ridge (117.01072°, −26.16388°), E.S. Volschenk, N. Dight & J. Nolthenous, 28/VII – 28/VIII/2008, 1 ♂ ( WAM T108314); Mount Keith mine, 39.1 km south-southeast of Lake Way homestead, site M km 01A, pitfall trap (120.57972°, −27.28139°), R. Teale, 15 – 23/III/2006, 3 ♂ ( WAM T75600); Munro ’ s property (MU), c. 12 km east of Carnarvon in River Reserve (113.74889°, −24.84472°), I. Stemp, 23 – 30/IX/2002, 1 ♂ ( WAM T55963); northeast of Quairading, Gardner Reserve Road, north, site QU3, pitfall trap (117.47278°, −31.77917°), E. Ladhams, X/ 30/X/1997 – 27/V/ 1998, 2 ♂ ( WAM T133473); West Perenjori Nature Reserve, south, site MO2 (116.21°, −29.47861°), B. Durrant, 15/IX/1998 – 18/X/1999, 1 ♂ 1 ♀ ( WAM T133079); Waylunga National Park, under bark (116.02°, −31.77°), M.R. Gray, 27/II/1979, 1 ♀ (AM KS.14963*); 2 ♂ 9 ♀ (AM KS.3977*).

Figures

Figure 14. Light microscopy, cymbium, prolateral, clove oil cleared. (A) Wandella australiensis (Koch 1873), male from Undara National Park, Queensland (QM S 98401), cleared. (B) Wandella barbarella Gray 1994, male from Gardner Reserve Road, Western Australia (WAM T 133473). Abbreviations: BSB, basal sclerite of the bulb; F, fundus; M 30, claw extensor muscle; tM 29, tendon of the claw flexor muscle.

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.