Pseudolampona jarrahdale, 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 : 309-310

Pseudolampona jarrahdale , new species Figures 758–761 ; Map 86

TYPE: Male holotype from Alcoa minesite and forest, N and NW of Jarrahdale, 328209S, 1168049E, Western Australia (Mar.–Aug. 1993; S. Simmonds), deposited in WAM (96/ 737) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the strongly arched median apophysis (fig. 758), females by the almost u­shaped spermathecae (fig. 761).

MALE: Total length 2.9. Coloration as in P. woodman except abdominal venter with dark markings only around spinnerets. Retrolateral tibial apophysis straight (fig. 759); median apophysis highly arched (fig. 758).

FEMALE: Total length 3.1. Coloration as in male. Epigynum showing pair of darkened posteromedian ducts (fig. 760), spermathecae rotund, almost u­shaped because of large, median projections (fig. 761).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Western Australia: Dwellingup , 328439S, 1168049E, Jan. 12, 1978, pitfall (S. Curry, WAM 96 / 1530), 1/, Feb. 28, 1979 (S. Curry, WAM 95 /736), 1 /; 16 km E Dwellingup on Williams Road , 328409S, 1158559E, Feb. 15, 1979 (M. Gray, AMS KS14848 ), 1 /.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Western

Australia (map 86).

Figures

Map 86. Records of Pseudolampona jarrahdale, new species (circles) and P. marun, new species (squares).

Figs. 758–761. Pseudolampona jarrahdale, new species. 758. Left male palp, ventral view. 759. Same, retrolateral view. 760. Epigynum, ventral view. 761. Same, dorsal view.