Miturgopelma australiensis ( Hickman, 1944 ) Raven & Hebron & Williams, 2023

Raven, Robert J., Hebron, Wendy & Williams, Kylie, 2023, Revisions of Australian ground-hunting spiders VI: five new stripe-less miturgid genera and 48 new species (Miturgidae: Miturginae), Zootaxa 5358 (1), pp. 1-117 : 19-21

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5358.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1A17A242-2E91-4F43-9E5D-063F8C0CBE72

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10169145

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7A20879E-571B-FFE8-7DD4-FEA738467797

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scientific name

Miturgopelma australiensis ( Hickman, 1944 )
status

comb. nov.

Miturgopelma australiensis ( Hickman, 1944) comb. nov.

Figs 8–9 View FIGURE 8 View FIGURE 9

Odo australiensis Hickman, 1944: 40 View in CoL , plate 3, figs 31–34; Davies, 1985: 125.

Type material. Northern Territory: Syntypes: male lectotype (here designated), centre of Simpson Desert , 24.57501°S 135.723611°E, AM KS6629 ; GoogleMaps female paralectotype, 24°34’30”S, 135°43’24”E 11 miles E of Hale R, Simpson Desert, AM KS 6628 . GoogleMaps Type locality data Source: http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/landscape/ exploration/display/109428-simpson-desert-expedition-memorial.

Other material examined. Northern Territory: 1 ma., Uluru-Kata Tjuta NP, 25°22’S 131°11’E, Oct 1994, Mus. Vic. Horn Expedition Centenary Survey, R. Raven, QM S52378 GoogleMaps ; 12 ma., Finke Gorge NP, 11.3 km S of Hermannsburg, 24°03’S 132°44’E, Oct 1994, Mus. Vic. Horn Expedition Centenary Survey, MV K4445 GoogleMaps ; 7 ma., Uluru-Kata Tjuta NP, 25°22’S 131°11’E, Oct 1994, MV Horn Expedition Centenary Survey, MV K4448 GoogleMaps .

Queensland: Ethabuka Stn , 23°46’S, 138°28’E, desert: 3 ma., 4–6 Mar 1999, R. Raven, B. Baehr , QM S42910 , S68880 GoogleMaps ; 1 fem., 1 ma., Ethabuka Stn , 23°46’S, 138°28’E, 2 Aug 1992, J. Henschel, QM S33461 , S35630 GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. Males differ from those of Miturgopelma watarrka sp. nov. only by having the median apophysis continuously tapering to a blunt point ( Fig. 9a View FIGURE 9 ), whereas in Miturgopelma watarrka sp. nov. it has a lateral flare, also the ventral lobe of the RTA is blunt rather than pointed as in Miturgopelma watarrka sp. nov. Males differ from those of Miturgopelma ferruginea comb. nov. in the broader median apophysis both basally and for its length; both males and females have strongly patterned carapace and dorsum of opisthosoma (as in Fig. 10d View FIGURE 10 ), rather than the pallid hardly marked carapace and opisthosoma of M. ferruginea comb. nov. ( Fig. 33c View FIGURE 33 ).

Description. Male, lectotype AM KS6629.

Palp. Patella without process. Tibia short, ventrally smooth; RTA, ventral lobe rounded triangular with distal process but not a lobe; dorsal lobe a simple short blunt prong. Cymbium without retrobasal thickening; no spines or scopula on cymbium. Tegulum long, ovoid, sperm duct form long J-shape; basal subtegulum small ovoid, distal portion not evident. Embolus originates prolaterally just distal of mid-length. MA basally broad, folded with short simple apical hook.

Distribution. Known only from South Australia, Northern Territory and adjacent areas of south-western Queensland.

QM

Australia, Queensland, South Brisbane, Queensland Museum

AM

Australian Museum

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

QM

Queensland Museum

MV

University of Montana Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Zoropsidae

Genus

Miturgopelma

Loc

Miturgopelma australiensis ( Hickman, 1944 )

Raven, Robert J., Hebron, Wendy & Williams, Kylie 2023
2023
Loc

Odo australiensis

Davies, V. T. 1985: 125
Hickman, V. V. 1944: 40
1944
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