Desognaphosa kirrama, 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 kirrama , new species Figures 223–226 ; Map 11

TYPE: Female holotype and male allotype taken in pitfall traps in a rainforest at an elevation of 800 m on Douglas Creek Road, Kirrama Range , 18 ° 12 ̍ S, 145 ° 45 ̍ E, Queensland (Dec. 10, 1986 – Jan. 11, 1987; G. Monteith, G. Thompson, S. Hamlet), deposited in QMB ( S28774 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the s­shaped terminal apophysis (fig. 223), females by the eyebrow­and­socketshaped epigynal atrium (fig. 225).

MALE: Total length 5.2. Coloration as in D. malbon . Leg spination: tibiae: III v1p­1p­ 2; IV r0­1­1; metatarsi: III v2­0­2; IV v2­2­ 2, r0­1­0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis short, with bifid tip, paracymbial apophysis relatively short (fig. 224); translucent median apophysis situated on prolateral side of terminal apophysis (fig. 223).

FEMALE: Total length 6.6. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: tibiae: III v1p­1p­2; IV v2­2­2, r0­1­1; metatarsi: III v2­1p­2; IV v2­ 2­2, r0­1­0. Epigynum with pair of semicircular openings separated by narrow septum, bordered anteriorly by eyebrow­shaped anterior margins (fig. 225); median ducts expanded, translucent, recurved anteriorly (fig. 226).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: Mount Graham, 8 km N Abergowrie, 18 ° 24 ̍ S, 145 ° 52 ̍ E, Dec. 26, 1986 ­ Jan. 17, 1987, rainforest pitfalls, elev. 600–700 m (S. Hamlet, QMB S14156 ), 2♀.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from northeastern Queensland (map 11).

Figures

Map 11. Records of Platyoides walteri (Karsch) (star), Tinytrema bondi, new species (circles), Desognaphosa kirrama, new species (squares), and D. finnigan, new species (diamonds).

Figs. 223–226. Desognaphosa kirrama, new species. 223. Left male palp, ventral view. 224. Same, retrolateral view. 225. Epigynum, ventral view. 226. Same, dorsal view.