Hemicloeina humptydoo, PLATNICK, 2002

PLATNICK, NORMAN I., 2002, A Revision Of The Australasian Ground Spiders Of The Families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, And Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2002 (271), pp. 1-1 : 1-

Hemicloeina humptydoo , new species Figures 557–560 ; Map 42

TYPE: Female holotype from savanna habitat around house on Sunter Road, Humpty

Doo , 12 ° 38 ̍ S, 131 ° 15 ̍ E, Northern Territory (Oct. 14, 1996; T. Churchill), deposited in CSIR (A0087) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the bifid tip of the retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 558) and blade­shaped distal prong of the palpal conductor (fig. 557), females by the squared epigynal atrium (fig. 559) and posteriorly narrowed spermathecae (fig. 560).

MALE: Total length 7. Coloration as in H. somersetensis . Leg spination: femora: I, II p1­0­0; III p1­0­0, r0­0­0; IV p0­0­0; tibiae: III v1p­2­2; IV r1­1­1; metatarsi III v2­0­2. Retrolateral tibial apophysis with bifid tip (fig. 558); distal prong of conductor laterally flattened, blade­shaped (fig. 557).

FEMALE: Total length 9. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: femora: II p1­0­0; III p1­0­0, r0­0­0; IV p0­0­0; tibiae: III v2­1p­ 2; IV r1­1­1. Epigynal atrium squared, median three­quarters elevated (fig. 559); spermathecae narrowed posteriorly (fig. 560).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Northern Territory: Gunn Point , 12 ° 11 ̍ S, 130 ° 59 ̍ E, Dec. 15, 1979 ( MNT), 1♀ ; Solar Village, Humpty Doo , 12 ° 38 ̍ S, 131 ° 15 ̍ E, Nov. 9, 1996, house/savanna (J. Webber, CSID A0312 ), 13 .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the Northern Territory (map 42).

Figures

Map 42. Records of Boolathana mainae, new species (squares), Hemicloeina julatten, new species (stars), and H. humptydoo, new species (circles).

Figs. 557–560. Hemicloeina humptydoo, new species. 557. Left male palp, ventral view. 558. Same, retrolateral view. 559. Epigynum, ventral view. 560. Same, dorsal view.