Pseudolampona spurgeon, 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 : 313

Pseudolampona spurgeon , new species Figures 770–773 ; Map 87

TYPE: Male holotype taken in a pitfall trap at an elevation of 1100 m on Mount Spurgeon , 168279S, 1458119E, Queensland (Nov. 19, 1997 – Feb. 8, 1998; G. Monteith, D. Cook), deposited in QMB ( S43938 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of P. taroom in having a distally folded embolus, but can be recognized by the distinctly beaked median apophysis (fig. 770); females differ from those of P. taroom in having the anterior spermathecal lobes distinctly demarcated (figs. 772, 773).

MALE: Total length 2.2. Abdominal dorsum with four dark chevrons, two anterior ones large, fused at sides; venter with dark markings only around spinnerets. Retrolateral tibial apophysis small, spike­shaped (fig. 771); embolus strong, folded at midlength, median apophysis short, beaked (fig. 770).

FEMALE: Total length 2.3. Coloration as in male. Epigynal openings at about half of epigynal length (fig. 772), spermathecae with distinctly demarcated anterior lobes (fig. 773).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: Mount Windsor Tableland, Whypalla, 168139S, 1448599E, summer 1992–1993, pitfalls, elev. 1120 m (S. Burnett, QMB S22660 , 24403, 30450, 33168, 33205), 9?, 1/.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from northeastern Queensland.

Figures

Map 87. Records of Pseudolampona taroom, new species (circles) and P. spurgeon, new species (squares).

Figs. 770–773. Pseudolampona spurgeon, new species. 770. Left male palp, ventral view. 771. Same, retrolateral view. 772. Epigynum, ventral view. 773. Same, dorsal view.