Meedo broadwater, 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-

Meedo broadwater , new species Figures 73–76 ; Map 5

TYPES: Male holotype and female allotype taken in pitfall traps at Lake Broadwater, via Dalby , 27 ° 21 ̍ S, 151 ° 06 ̍ E, Queensland (Jan. 3–Feb. 25, 1986; M. Bennie), deposited in QMB .

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

DIAGNOSIS: This seems to be the eastern and northern sister species of M. cohuna (see above). Males can be distinguished by the prolateral lobe on the palpal conductor (figs. 73, 74), females by the much wider epigynal atrium (fig. 75)

MALE: Total length 4.9. Carapace yellow, with scattered dark gray maculations; abdominal dorsum gray with scattered tiny, white spots, legs yellow proximally, light brown distally. Chelicerae porrect, endites relatively long. Tarsi III with cuticular cracks. Retrolateral tibial apophysis bladeshaped, very narrow in lateral view (fig. 74); embolus very narrow throughout most of its length, conductor with twisted prolateral lobe (fig. 73).

FEMALE: Total length 4.4. Coloration and mouthparts as in male. All tarsi entire. Epigynal atrium relatively wide, procurved (fig. 75); spermathecae with long, anterior, thumb­shaped extensions (fig. 76).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: Braemar State Forest , 27 ° 13 ̍ S, 150 ° 50 ̍ E, Oct. 15–19, 1979, pitfall, cypress (R. Raven, QMB), 2♀, Feb. 4–8, 1980, pitfall (G., S. Monteith, QMB S26822 ), 1♀ ; Bushley Station , 23 ° 32 ̍ S, 150 ° 15 ̍ E, Mar. 21–Oct. 22, 1990, pitfall, open forest (D. Wallace, R. Raven, K. Williams, QMB S34475 ), 1♀ ; Deepwater Creek, via Rosedale , 24 ° 32 ̍ S, 151 ° 58 ̍ E, May 6–July 24, 1975, rainforest pitfall, elev. 10 m (G., S. Monteith, QMB), 1♀ ; Lake Broadwater, via Dalby , 27 ° 21 ̍ S, 151 ° 06 ̍ E, Mar. 26–May 17, 1985, pitfall (M. Bennie, QMB), 13, May 17–Nov. 24, 1985, pitfalls (M. Bennie, QMB S34510 , 34512 ), 33, 1♀ ; Mount Cleveland , 19 ° 16 ̍ S, 147 ° 03 ̍ E, Jan.–Mar. 12, 1991, blady grass traps, elev. 500 m (A. Graham, QMB S17990 ), 13, Mar. 23–May 13, 1991, pitfall, open forest, summit (D. Cook, QMB S34526 ), 13 ; Mount Gayndah , summit, 25 ° 36 ̍ S, 151 ° 32 ̍ E, Jan. 27–June 2, 1999, open forest pitfall, elev. 340 m (G. Monteith, G. Thompson, QMB S51126 ), 13 ; Mount Rose Station , Boggomoss No. 15, site not located, June–Nov. 10, 1996 (P. Lawless, QMB S36618), 13 ; Orchid Beach, Fraser Island , 24 ° 58 ̍ S, 153 ° 19 ̍ E, Mar. 7–Oct. 1, 1996, pitfall, heath, banksia, eucalypt (R. Raven, QMB S31293 ), 23 ; Taroom District, Bog­ gomoss No. 1, 7, 25 ° 26 ̍ S, 150 ° 02 ̍ E, Sept. 9–Nov. 12, 1996, pitfall, open forest (P. Lawless, QMB S34514 , 34515 ), 13, 1♀ ; Taroom District , Boggomoss No. 8, 25 ° 27 ̍ S, 150 ° 02 ̍ E, Nov. 11, 1996 – Jan. 1997, pitfall, open forest (P. Lawless, QMB S36671 ), 1♀ ; Taroom District , Boggomoss No. 21, 25 ° 27 ̍ S, 150 ° 03 ̍ E, Sept. 9–Nov. 10, 1996, pitfall (P. Lawless, QMB S34513 ), 1♀ ; Windermere, near Glenmorgan , 27 ° 17 ̍ S, 149 ° 45 ̍ E, July–Sept. 1991, pitfall, open forest (R. Raven, D. Smyth, QMB ex S30361 ), 1♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Widespread in eastern Queensland (map 5).

Figures

Map 5. Records of Meedo broadwater, new species (circles), M. yeni, new species (squares), and M. bluff, new species (diamonds).

Figs. 73–76. Meedo broadwater, new species. 73. Left male palp, ventral view. 74. Same, retrolateral view. 75. Epigynum, ventral view. 76. Same, dorsal view.