Oxyopes quadrifasciatus L. Koch, 1878

Baehr, Barbara C., Harms, Danilo, Duperre, Nadine & Raven, Robert, 2017, The Australian Lynx Spiders (Araneae, Oxyopidae, Oxyopes) of the Godeffroy Collection, including the description of a new species, Evolutionary Systematics 1 (1), pp. 11-37 : 28

Oxyopes quadrifasciatus L. Koch, 1878 Figs 16 A–E, 21D

581. Oxyopes quadrifasciatus L. Koch, 1878, 1020-1021, Taf. 89 Fig. 6 + 6 a, Australien, Peak Downs, Holotype (Mus. GODEFFROY Nr. 16499) (37) ( Rack 1961).

Material examined.

FEMALE HOLOTYPE (ZMH-A0000018), from Queensland, Peak Downs, "now large open cut coking coal mine in Queensland located 31 km SSE of Moranbah", 22°15 ’9.60” S, 148°10 ’30.00” E, Godeffroy Collection.

Diagnosis.

The female of Oxyopes quadrifasciatus can be separated from females of all other described Australian Oxyopes species by the inverted anchor-shaped scapus with triangular tip and short outward directed lateral lobes (Figs 16 C–E, 21 D). Male unknown.

Description.

Female (Holotype, ZMH-A0000018). Total length 6.11. Prosoma 2.44 long, 1.87 wide, pl/pw 1.30; sternum 1.01 long, 0.93 wide, sl/sw 1.09; opisthosoma 3.67 long, 1.62 wide. Eight eyes in four rows with six eyes forming a hexagon, AME smallest ALE biggest, others equal in size; AME 0.11; ALE 0.21; PLE 0.20; PME 0.20; ALE–ALE 0.24; ALE–AME 0.0.06; AME–AME 0.15; ALE–PLE 0.19; PLE–PME 0.27; PME–PME 0.27. Clypeus 0.46 high with a pair of thin longitudinal brown stripes. Prosoma pale with brown lateral bands, rectangular, posteriorly straight, fovea short. Chelicerae paturon pale with longitudinal median dark stripe and lateral condyle. Endites, labium and sternum pale; opisthosoma pale with two longitudinal dark brown bands; venter pale with two longitudinal dark brown stripes laterally. Legs pale with dark brown stripes ventrally. Female epigyne (Figs 16 C–E, 21 D): scapus inverted anchor-shaped with triangular tip and short outwards directed lateral lobes, broad copulatory ducts, convoluted with one thick coil, ending in egg-shaped lateral spermathecae situated at middle part of scapus.

Distribution.

Original records from Peak Downs in central Queensland. The ALA lists additional records from the Brisbane area, coastal Queensland, the Pilbara in Western Australia and near Melbourne that need to be checked.