Desognaphosa tribulation, PLATNICK, 2002

PLATNICK, NORMAN I., 2002, A Revision Of The Australasian Ground Spiders Of The Families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, And Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2002 (271), pp. 1-1 : 1-

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2002)271<0001:AROTAG>2.0.CO;2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5469343

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EAE52A-FFF0-A60E-826E-2344DA574838

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Desognaphosa tribulation
status

sp. nov.

Desognaphosa tribulation , new species Figures 199, 200 View Figs ; Map 18 View Map 18

TYPE: Female holotype taken in a Berlese sample of sieved litter from a rainforest at an elevation of 400 m at a site 2.7 km W of Cape Tribulation , 16 ° 05 ̍ S, 145 ° 27 ̍ E, Queensland (Jan. 1983; G. Monteith), deposited in QMB ( S26683 View Materials ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Females can easily be recognized by the anteriorly advanced transverse vulval bar (fig. 200).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE: Total length 3.5. Coloration as in D. bulburin . Leg spination: femur III d0­0­ 0; tibiae: III v0­0­2; IV v1p­0­2, r0­1­1; metatarsi: III v0­0­0; IV v1p­0­2. Epigynum with wide anterior margin at wide end of depressed, triangular atrium (fig. 199); transverse bar situated in anterior half of epigynum (fig. 200).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: 2.5 km W Cape Tribulation, 16 ° 05 ̍ S, 145 ° 27 ̍ E, Oct. 2, 1982, Berlese , sieved rainforest litter, elev. 180 m (G. Monteith, QMB S 26646 View Materials ), 1♀, Jan. 2, 1983, same (G. Monteith, QMB S26692 View Materials ), 2♀ ; Noah Creek, Cape Tribulation, 16 ° 08 ̍ S, 145 ° 26 ̍ E, Oct. 16, 1980, Berlese , sieved rainforest litter, elev. 5 m (G. Monteith, QMB S26643 View Materials ), 2♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the Cape Tribulation area of northeastern Queensland (map 18).

QMB

Queensland Museum, Brisbane

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