Desognaphosa bellenden, 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-

Desognaphosa bellenden , new species Figures 243–246 ; Map 18

TYPES: Female holotype and male paratype taken by pyrethrum knockdown from logs, stones, and trunks at an elevation of 500 m at a site 0.5 km S Cable Tower 7, Bellenden Ker Range, 17 ° 16 ̍ S, 145 ° 51 ̍ E, Queensland (Oct. 17–24, 1981), deposited in QMB ( S28777 ).

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

DIAGNOSIS: This appears to be the southern sister species of D. kuranda , sharing with it a distinctive shape of the retrolateral tibial apophysis (figs. 244, 248); males can be distinguished by their longer embolus (figs. 243, 244), females by the almost triangular epigynal atrium (fig. 245).

MALE: Total length 5.9. Coloration as in D. malbon . Leg spination: tibiae: III v2­1p­ 2; IV v2­2­2, r0­1­1; metatarsi: III v2­0­2; IV v2­2­2, r0­1­0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis almost arrow­shaped, with short ventral and long distal tips, paracymbial apophysis relatively short (fig. 244); distal palpal sclerites wrapped around each other, with tip directed slightly to prolateral side (fig. 243).

FEMALE: Total length 7.5. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: tibiae: III v2­2­2; IV v2­2­2, r0­1­1; metatarsi: III v2­0­2; IV v2­2­2, r0­1­0. Epigynal atrium situated an­ teriorly, triangular (fig. 245), median ducts extending fully to sides of atrium (fig. 246).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: Bellenden Ker Range, Cableway Base Station , 17 ° 16 ̍ S, 145 ° 54 ̍ E, Oct. 17–24, 1981, pyrethrum knockdown, logs, stones, trunks, elev. 100 m ( QMB S27801 ), 1♀ ; above Kearny’s Falls , 17 ° 14 ̍ S, 145 ° 47 ̍ E, Oct. 12, 1991, elev. 550 m (G. Monteith, H. Janetzki, D. Cook, QMB S28762 ), 1♀ ; Mount Haig , 17 ° 06 ̍ S, 145 ° 36 ̍ E, Feb. 4–Mar. 17, 1995, pitfall, elev. 1150 m (P. Zborowski, QMB), 13 ; Robson Creek Road, 9 km by road from Danbullah Forest Drive, Danbullah State Forest , 17 ° 06 ̍ S, 145 ° 38 ̍ E, Apr. 26, 1998, rainforest (G. Milledge, AMS KS52292 ), 1♀ ; Robson Creek Road, 18.3 km by road from Danbullah Forest Drive, Danbullah State Forest , 17 ° 05 ̍ S, 145 ° 34 ̍ E, Apr. 26, 1998, rainforest (G. Milledge, AMS KS52291 ), 2♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from northeastern Queensland (map 18).

Figures

Map 18. Records of Desognaphosa eungella, new species (squares), D. tribulation, new species (diamond), and D. bellenden, new species (circles).

Figs. 243–246. Desognaphosa bellenden, new species. 243. Left male palp, ventral view. 244. Same, retrolateral view. 245. Epigynum, ventral view. 246. Same, dorsal view.