Rebilus bunya, 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-

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https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090(2002)271<0001:AROTAG>2.0.CO;2

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scientific name

Rebilus bunya
status

new species

Rebilus bunya , new species Figures 591–594, 642; Map 48

TYPE: Female holotype taken under bark on log in araucaria notophyll vineforest at Bunya Mountains National Park, Dandabah, 26 ° 54 ̍ S, 151 ° 34 ̍ E, Queensland (Mar. 6, 1976), deposited in QMB ( S28462 View Materials ).

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the bifid retrolateral tibial apophysis, with two subequal prongs at a right angle to each other (figs. 592, 642), females by the wide, sinuous posterior epigynal margin (fig. 593).

MALE: Total length 10. Coloration as in R. bulburin . Leg spination: femora I–IV p1­1­ 0; tibiae: I, II v1p­1p­2; III v2­2­2; IV v1p­ 2­2, r0­1­0; metatarsi: III v2­0­2; IV v1r­0­ 2. Retrolateral tibial apophysis bifid, with subequal prongs situated at right angles to each other (figs. 592, 642); cymbium without prolateral thickened setae, median apophysis strongly narrowed near tip (fig. 591).

FEMALE: Total length 11. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: femora: II, III p1­1­0; IV p1­0­0; tibiae: I, II v1p­1p­2; III v2­2­2; IV v2­2­2, r1­1­0; metatarsi: III v2­0­2; IV v2­0­2, r1­0­0. Epigynum with wide, medially sinuous posterior margin (fig. 593); epigynal ducts short, sinuous (fig. 594).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: Bunya Mountains National Park , Dandabah, 26 ° 54 ̍ S, 151 ° 34 ̍ E, Sept. 4, 1974 (R. Raven, QMB S28471 View Materials ), 2♀, Mar. 6, 1976, under logs, bark, araucaria notophyll vineforest (ex QMB S28462 View Materials ), 13, 2♀ ; 60 km NE Dalby, Bunya Mountains , 26 ° 50 ̍ S, 151 ° 33 ̍ E, June 17–Aug. 19, 1982, flight intercept, auracaria forest (S., J. Peck, AMNH), 13 .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the Bun­

ya Mountains in southeastern Queensland (map 48).

QMB

Queensland Museum, Brisbane

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Trochanteriidae

Genus

Rebilus