Lampona walsh, 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 : 61-62

Lampona walsh , new species

Figures 110–113 ; Map 8

TYPE: Female holotype (penultimate but with fully developed epigynum) taken in a Berlese sample at Walsh Point , Admiralty Gulf , 148349S, 1258159E, Western Australia (May 16, 1983; J. Balderson), deposited in QMB .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of L. kapalga but have a smaller retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 111); females also resemble those of L. kapalga but have a straight anterior epigynal margin (fig. 112) and smaller anterior portions of the spermathecae (fig. 113).

MALE: Total length 4.5. Coloration as in L. cylindrata , with anterior pair of transverse light stripes more pronounced than median pair. Palpal femur unmodified; retrolateral tibial apophysis about half as long as tibia, triangular (fig. 111); tegulum globose but extending only to about one­fifth of tibial length; embolus narrow, gradually narrowed toward tip; palpal conductor small, with very small prolateral lobe (fig. 110).

FEMALE: Total length 6.0. Coloration as in male. Epigynum triangular (fig. 112); spermathecae elongate, anteriorly bulbous (fig. 113).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Western Australia: Augustus Island , CALM site 26/ 1, 158259S, 1248389E, June 11–16, 1988, yellow pan trap in open forest (I. Naumann, QMB S25998 ), 1 ?; Lone Dingo, Mitchell Plateau , 148359S, 1258459E, May 9–19, 1983, pan trap (I. Naumann, Cardale, QMB), 1 ?.

DISTRIBUTION: Northwestern Australia (map 8).

Figures

Map 8. Records of Lampona flavipes L. Koch

Figs. 110–113. Lampona walsh, new species. 110. Left male palp, ventral view. 111. Same, retrolateral view. 112. Epigynum, ventral view. 113. Same, dorsal view.