Desognaphosa tyson, 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 tyson , new species Figures 231–234 ; Map 15

TYPE: Female holotype taken in a Berlese sample of sieved rainforest litter from an elevation of 650 m on Mount Tyson , 2 km W of Tully, 17 ° 55 ̍ S, 145 ° 54 ̍ E, Queensland (May 7, 1983; D. Yeates), deposited in QMB ( S26693 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of D. pershouse but have a smaller retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 232) and a subdistal protuberance on the tip of the embolus (fig. 231); females resemble those of D. kirrama but have much wider epigynal openings (fig. 233) and anteriorly widened median ducts (fig. 234).

MALE: Total length 5.3. Coloration as in D. malbon . Leg spination: tibiae: III v2­1p­ 2; IV v2­2­2, r0­1­1; metatarsi: III v2­0­2; IV p0­1­0, v2­2­2, r0­1­0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis short, triangular, with hooked tip, paracymbial apophysis arched at middle, expanded at tip (fig. 232); embolus with subdistal, prolaterally directed protuberance (fig. 231).

FEMALE: Total length 7.7. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: tibiae: III v2­1p­2; IV v2­1p­2, r0­1­1; metatarsi: III v2­0­2; IV v2­ 2­2, r0­1­0. Epigynum with paired, almost circular openings extending laterally beyond anterior margins (fig. 233); median ducts anteriorly expanded, occupying most of epigynal width (fig. 234).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: Upper Boulder Creek, via Tully, 17 ° 50 ̍ S, 145 ° 54 ̍ E, Oct. 26, 1983, rainforest, pyrethrum knockdown (G. Monteith, D. Yeates, G. Thompson, QMB S26699 ), 13.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from northeastern Queensland (map 15).

Figures

Map 15. Records of Desognaphosa bulburin, new species (circle), D. tyson, new species (square), and D. carbine, new species (diamonds).

Figs. 231–234. Desognaphosa tyson, new species. 231. Left male palp, ventral view. 232. Same, retrolateral view. 233. Epigynum, ventral view. 234. Same, dorsal view.