Wandella diamentina 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 : 36-38

Wandella diamentina Gray 1994

( Figures 15 , 30 , 31 )

Wandella diamentina

Gray 1994, p. 56, figs 7, 87 – 91, 105, 106. Holotype female from Wyralah Station, southwest of Winton, Queensland, 22°46' S, 142°22' E, 15/VII/1981, A. Rozefelds, under rock, deposited in QM S6751, not examined.

Note

I have examined females from near the type locality with a similar somatic and genital morphology to the holotype, but bearing pores in the outer spermathecae. Judging by Gray ’ s illustrations (1994, figs. 105, 106) and his statement about the lack of glands in the outer spermathecae, it might be that the holotype is a not yet fully adult female. I here illustrate one of these females from near the type locality ( Figures 30 C, 31A) in the hope that it might assist in recognizing the species, as it is hitherto known from a single female and two immatures.

Distribution

Southwestern

Australia.

Queensland

( Figure

15);

newly

recorded

from northeastern

South

Material examined

Australia. Queensland: 65 km northwest of Winton, sandstone outcrop, in moist lightly sheltered area on top of outcrop, under log and rocks (142.64005°, −21.95847°), J. Thompson, S. Cowan & M. Tio, 10/VII/1995, 2 ♀ 2 imm. (AM KS.44204). South Australia: Clifton Hills, O.S.E. Lake Eyre Basin, dunes under cowpats (139.48333°, −26.5°), D. Hirst, 18 – 20/XI/1993, 1 ♀ ( SAM NN 28348).

Figures

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.

Figure 30. Wandella diamentina Gray 1994, females. (a – c) 65 km northwest of Winton, Queensland (AM KS. 44204). (A) Habitus, dorsal. (B) Habitus, lateral. (C) Spermathecae, dorsal, cleared. (D) Clifton Hills, South Australia (SAM NN 28348).

Figure 31. Wandella diamentina Gray 1994, females, spermathecae, dorsal, cleared. (A) 65 km northwest of Winton, Queensland (AM KS. 44204). (B) Clifton Hills, South Australia (SAM NN 28348).