Lampona spec, PLATNICK, 2000

PLATNICK, NORMAN I., 2000, A Relimitation And Revision Of The Australasian Ground Spider Family Lamponidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2000 (245), pp. 1-328 : 72-73

Lampona spec , new species

Figures 134–137 ; Map 12

TYPE: Male holotype taken in a Malaise trap at an elevation of 875 m on Mount Spec , 198009S, 1468119E, Queensland (May 8–June 5, 1995; M. Cermak), deposited in QMB .

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

DIAGNOSIS: This odd species resembles L. moorilyanna but has a distally truncated retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 135); females are unique in having tripartite spermathecae in which the median portions have been squeezed behind the anterior and posterior portions, so that they are readily visible only in ventral view (figs. 136, 137).

MALE: Total length 6.2. Abdominal dorsum with large anterior and smaller posterior white spots occupying almost full width of abdomen, venter unmarked, posterior femora and tibiae with subdistal dark rings. Palpal femur with very long setae but otherwise unmodified; retrolateral tibial apophysis wide, almost straight, with dorsally directed projection at tip (fig. 135); palpal bulb elongate, embolus narrow, recessed behind translucent membranes (fig. 134).

FEMALE: Total length 7.9. Coloration as in male. Epigynum with diamond­shaped septum, not extending as far anteriorly as spermathecae (fig. 136); spermathecae tripartite but with median portion squeezed into dorsal

position, scarcely visible in ventral view (fig. 137).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: Mount Spec, 198009S, 1468119E, Feb. 6–Mar. 9, 1995, intercept trap, elev. 875 m (M. Cermak, QMB), 1/.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from northern Queensland (map 12).

Figures

Map 12. Records of Lampona moorilyanna, new species (circles) and L. spec, new species (square).

Figs. 134–137. Lampona spec, new species. 134. Left male palp, ventral view. 135. Same, retrolateral view. 136. Epigynum, ventral view. 137. Same, dorsal view.