Oxyopes macilentus L. Koch, 1878

Baehr, Barbara C., Harms, Danilo, Duperre, Nadine & Raven, Robert, 2017, The Australian Lynx Spiders (Araneae, Oxyopidae, Oxyopes) of the Godeffroy Collection, including the description of a new species, Evolutionary Systematics 1 (1), pp. 11-37 : 21-24

Oxyopes macilentus L. Koch, 1878 Figs 10 A–E, 21A

577. Oxyopes macilentus L. Koch, 1878, 1000-1002, Taf. 87 Fig. 4 + 4 a u. 5-5 b, Australien, Rockhampton, 3 Syntypen (Mus. GODEFFROY Nr. 6512. Two more females from an unknown locality because the original label is bleached, these are probably the syntypes (Mus. GODEFFROY Nr. 6512) (37) ( Rack 1961).

Material examined.

Designated here: FEMALE LECTOTYPE (ZMH-A0000012), from Queensland, Rockhampton, 23°22'S, 150°30'E, Godeffroy Collection; (ZMH-A0000028) 2 female paralectotypes, same data as lectotype, Godeffroy Collection; (ZMH-A0000011) 2 females no locality.

Diagnosis.

Oxyopes macilentus females can be separated from females of all other described Australian Oxyopes species by having no scapus, but an inverted v-shaped, sclerotized median part with large apical copulatory openings (Fig. 10C, D). Male unknown.

Description.

Female (Lectotype, ZMH-A0000012). Total length 6.63. Prosoma 2.36 long, 1.76 wide, pl/pw 1.34; sternum 1.04 long, 0.97 wide, sl/sw 1.07; opisthosoma 4.27 long, 1.47 wide. Eight eyes in four rows with six eyes forming a hexagon, AME smallest, ALE biggest, others equal in size; AME 0.09; ALE 0.20; PLE 0.15; PME 0.15; ALE–ALE 0.15; ALE–AME 0.03; AME-AME 0.11; ALE– PLE 0.18; PLE–PME 0.22; PME–PME 0.18. Clypeus 0.44 high with a pair of dark brown bands. Prosoma pale with two thin, longitudinal, median, brown bands and two broad, lateral, brown bands, oval, posteriorly rounded, fovea short 0.16 of prosoma length. Chelicerae paturon pale with median dark stripe and lateral condyle. Endites, labium and sternum pale; opisthosoma elongated, pale with dark brown lateral and medial stripes (in live orange); venter pale with a long, triangular, dark brown median band. Legs pale ventrally with dark brown markings. Female epigyne (Figs 10 C–E, 21A): sclerotized median part inverted v-shaped with large apical copulatory openings, adjacent lateral lobes absent, copulatory ducts, short, thick with one broad coil, ending in globular spermathecae situated apically.

Distribution.

Original record from Rockhampton in central Queensland. The ALA lists many additional records from coastal Queensland, the Northern Territory and even Papua New Guinea that should be checked.

Remarks.

Koch (1877) notes that he had several specimens from Bowen, "Cape York", Gayndah, Rockhampton and Port Mackay from the Bradley and Godeffroy Collections that were mostly collected by Dämel. He cites the collector in noting that live specimens have yellow green legs and an abdomen that is rusty red with pale yellow stripe.