Wandella parnabyi 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 : 41-42

Wandella parnabyi Gray 1994

( Figures 1 A – B, 15)

Wandella parnabyi Gray 1994 , p. 45, figs. 7, 38 – 41, 103 – 104.

Male holotype from Fitzroy River crossing on Great Northern Highway, about 60 km south of Derby, WA, 17°40' S, 123°35' E, 3/III/1990, H. Parnaby, under loose bark of riverbank eucalypts, deposited in AM KS.30232, not examined.

Distribution

Western Australia; newly recorded from Northern Territory ( Figure 15 ).

Material examined

Australia. Northern Territory: Cape Crawford, 280 sign, big old tree on right (135.79983°, −16.63117°, 79 m), R. Raven, B. Baehr & A. Amey, 7 – 14/IX/2006, 1 ♂ (QM S76014). Western Australia: 56 km north-northwest of Kununurra, Ningbing Range, cave KNI-9 (128.61667°, −15.28333°, m), B. Vine, 10/V/1994, 1 ♀ ( WAM T132996); Broome, Cable Beach, among roots in sand dune (122.20645°, −17.95106°), D. Hirst, 9/VII/1981, laid 19 eggs in captivity, 1 ♀ ( SAM NN 28354); Durack River Station, 15.1 km south-southeast of Home Valley homestead, Salmond River (127.86556°, −15.85528°, m), M.S. Harvey & N. Tartanic, 28/V/2014, 1 ♂ ( WAM T132982); 1 ♀ 4 imm. ( WAM T132983); 1 ♀ ( WAM T132984); 1 ♀ ( WAM T132985); Kununurra, Kona Lakeside Caravan Park (128.72222°, −15.7925°, m), M.S. Harvey, 21/ VIII/2002, 3 ♀ ( WAM T132991); March Fly Glen, Gibb R Rd, King Leopold Ra east of Mt Bell, under bark (125.3072°, −17.1642°), M. Gray, G. Milledge & H. Smith, 6/VI/1999, 1 ♂ 1 imm. (AM KS.55847); 16 km southwest of Pannawonica, Mesa A, site MAT04, pitfall trap (116.22028°, −21.74639°), R. Teale, 6 – 12/VIII/2005, 1 ♂ ( WAM T77171); Walter James Range, site 11, dry pitfall trap (128.79731°, −24.80078°), J.M. Waldock & K.E.C. Brennan, 20 – 27/IX/2006, 2 ♂ ( WAM T79275); Ripon Hills Rd, 47.6 km east of Nullagine turnoff (Marble Bar Rd), pitfall trap (120.3689°, −21.2264°), M. Bulbert, J.

Gollan, L.M. Kampen, G. Carter, 29/III – 26/V/2006, 1 ♂ (AM KS.100201); 1 ♂ (AM KS.100202); Wyndham crocodile farm, Port Wyndham, under bark (128.1°, −15.47°), M. Gray, G. Milledge & H. Smith, 13/VI / 1999, 1 ♀ (AM KS. 55848).

Figures

Figure 1. Wandella, live specimens. (A) Wandella parnabyi Gray, male from Durack River Station (WAM T 132982). (B) Female from the same locality (WAM T 132984). (C – E) Wandella murrayensis from Adelaide, South Australia. (C) Female with egg-sac. (D) Female spinning a cribellate thread. (E) Female on top, male on bottom. Photos (A), (B) by Robert Whyte, courtesy of Bush Blitz, (C – E) by Allan Lance.

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.