Asadipus longforest, 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 : 265-266

Asadipus longforest , new species

Figures 634–637 ; Map 65

TYPES: Female holotype and male allotype taken in pitfall traps in bull mallee and grey box woodland at Longforest , 368399S, 1448309E, Victoria (Mar. 13–19, 1992; B. Van Praagh, P. Lillywhite), deposited in NMVS .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the arched dorsal prong of the terminal apophysis (fig. 634), females by the anterior epigynal ducts making a full circle (fig. 637).

MALE: Total length 4.3. Coloration as in A. phaleratus . Leg spination: tibiae: III p0­ 0­0, v0­0­1p, r0­0­0; IV p0­0­0, v1p­1p­2, r0­0­0; metatarsi: III v0­0­0; IV v1p­0­0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis reaching to about half of cymbial length (fig. 635); ventral prong of terminal apophysis relatively narrow, dorsal prong arched, distally twisted (fig. 634).

FEMALE: Total length 5.4. Coloration as in A. phaleratus . Leg spination: tibiae: III p0­ 0­0, v1p­0­2, r0­0­0; IV p0­0­0, v1p­1p­2, r0­0­0; metatarsi: III v0­0­0; IV v1p­0­0. Anterior epigynal ducts forming full circle around epigynal openings (fig. 636); spermathecae situated medially, semicircular (fig. 637).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: South Australia: 4 km N Bucks Camp, Mount Rescue Conservation Park , 358569S, 1408189E, Mar. 18, 1992, vibration (D. Hirst, SAM N1997 / 93), 1 /; 0.1 km N Grainger Lagoon, Kan­ garoo Island , 358549S, 1368539E, Mar. 9–15, 1995, pitfall (T. Herbert, SAM N1996 /427), 1 ?; Pinkawillinie Conservation Park, 328079S, 1368009E, May 21, 1990, pitfall (D. Hirst, SAM N1997 /94), 1?. Tasmania: Queens Domain , 428529S, 1478199E, Aug.– Sept. 1942, in cranberry bushes (V. Hickman, AMS KS29241 ), 1?, 1 /; Trevallyn , 418279S, 1478109E, Mar. 17, 1928, under stone (V. Hickman, AMS KS29289 ), 1 /; Waterhouse Point , 408519S, 1478389E, Apr. 1987, coastal heath (T. Churchill, QVM 13 : 1981), 1?. Victoria: 7 km ENE Kingower, 368359S, 1438509E, Mar. 26–29, 1990, mallee (A. Coventry, NMV K4651 ), 1 ?; Longforest , 368399S, 1448309E, Mar. 13–19, 1992, pitfalls, bull mallee, grey box woodland (B. Van Praagh, P. Lillywhite, NMVS), 2?, 1 /.

DISTRIBUTION: South Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania (map 65).

Figures

Map 65. Records of Graycassis bruxner, new species (circles), Asadipus banjiwarn, new species (squares), and A. longforest, new species (triangles).

Figs. 634–637. Asadipus longforest, new species. 634. Left male palp, ventral view. 635. Same, retrolateral view. 636. Epigynum, ventral view. 637. Same, dorsal view.