Jamberoo actensis, Gray & Smith, 2008

Gray, Michael R. & Smith, Helen M., 2008, A New Subfamily of Spiders with Grate-shaped Tapeta from Australia and Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Stiphidiidae: Borralinae), Records of the Australian Museum 60 (1), pp. 13-44 : 31

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3853/j.0067-1975.60.2008.1493

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038E4730-6E26-C151-E548-A3B2FDF13891

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scientific name

Jamberoo actensis
status

sp. nov.

Jamberoo actensis View in CoL n.sp.

Figs 8a View Fig , 11a–e View Fig

Type material. Australian Capital Territory: HOLOTYPE:?, KS76978, 1 km SW of Gibraltar Falls on Corin Dam Rd , Tidbinbilla Ra, 35°28'S 148°57'E, 10 Dec. 1977, M.R. Gray, sheet web on log GoogleMaps . PARATYPE:!, KS60770, data as for holotype.

Diagnosis. Like J. johnnoblei but differs as follows: distal cymbium short and coniform; palpal bulb broader; TL more retrobasally placed; and epigynal fossae broadest anteriorly.

Description

Male (holotype). BL 6.65, CL 3.18, CW 2.24, CapW 1.31, EGW 0.90, LL 0.45, LW 0.47, SL 1.49, SW 1.33. Legs: 1243 (I: 15.35; II: 12.65; III: 10.45; IV: 12.61); ratio tibia I length:CW = 1:0.57. Male palp ( Fig. 11a,b View Fig ). Cymbium apex short coniform. Bulb subcircular, about as wide as long. Conductor with a short prolateral limb, about half as long as retrolateral limb. TW long, prolateral to basal. TL retro-basal with prolateral margin rounded. Sclerotized MA process similar to J. johnnoblei .

Female (KS60770). BL 7.96, CL 3.35, CW 2.12, CapW 1.55, EGW 0.98, LL 0.57, LW 0.55, SL 1.61, SW 1.41. Legs: 1423 (I: 13.18; II: 11.18; III: 9.47; IV: 11.63); ratio tibia I length:CW = 1:0.64. Epigynum ( Fig. 11c–e View Fig ). Fossae relatively large and broadest anteriorly. Median septum short and wide, tapering and rising posteriorly as an ovoid protuberance, about as long as the anterior septum. Internal genitalia similar to J. johnnoblei .

Distribution. Known only from the type locality.

Etymology. The species name is taken from the acronym for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Stiphidiidae

Genus

Jamberoo

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