Desognaphosa pershouse, 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 pershouse , new species Figures 227–230 ; Map 13

TYPES: Female holotype and male allotype taken in a Berlese sample of sieved rainforest

litter from an elevation of 930 m on Mount Pershouse, Kirrama Range , 18 ° 12 ̍ S, 145 ° 45 ̍ E, Queensland (Dec. 12, 1986; G. Monteith, G. Thompson), deposited in QMB ( S28741 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the relatively long retrolateral tibial apophysis, which has two subdistal protuberances (fig. 228), females by the relatively long median epigynal ducts, which have a pair of anterior protuberances (fig. 230).

MALE: Total length 5.2. Coloration as in D. malbon . Leg spination: tibiae: III v1p­1p­ 2; IV v2­2­2, r0­1­1; metatarsi: III v2­0­1p; IV v2­2­2, r0­1­0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis relatively long, with two subdistal protuberances, paracymbial apophysis oblique (fig. 228); tip of terminal apophysis directed obliquely, retroventrally (fig. 227).

FEMALE: Total length 6.2. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: tibiae: III v2­2­2; IV v2­2­2, r0­1­1; metatarsi: III v2­0­2; IV v2­ 2­2, r0­1­0. Anterior epigynal margin wide (fig. 229); median epigynal ducts very long, with anterior protuberances (fig. 230).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: Mount Pershouse, Kirrama Range , 18 ° 12 ̍ S, 145 ° 45 ̍ E, Dec. 12, 1986, Berlese, sieved rainforest litter, elev. 930 m (G. Monteith, G. Thompson, QMB S28735 ), 1♀ ; 15 km W Kennedy, Kirrama State Forest , 18 ° 13 ̍ S, 145 ° 48 ̍ E, May 8, 1983, Berlese, sieved rainforest litter, elev. 800 m (D. Yeates, QMB S28749 ), 1♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from northeastern Queensland (map 13).

Figures

Map 13. Records of Tinytrema sandy, new species (circles), Desognaphosa pershouse, new species (square), and D. homerule, new species (diamonds).

Figs. 227–230. Desognaphosa pershouse, new species. 227. Left male palp, ventral view. 228. Same, retrolateral view. 229. Epigynum, ventral view. 230. Same, dorsal view.