Euprograpta anhat, Raven, Robert J., 2009

Raven, Robert J., 2009, Revisions of Australian ground-hunting spiders: IV. The spider subfamily Diaprograptinae subfam. nov. (Araneomorphae: Miturgidae), Zootaxa 2035, pp. 1-40 : 20-21

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.186352
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6216634
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/774E87C4-D66B-FF8F-FF3B-FB0BFC5AFF59
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Euprograpta anhat
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Euprograpta anhat sp. nov.

( Figs 13 View FIGURE 13 a–c, 25a)

Material examined. Holotype. Female, Birdsville track to Mt Isa [no exact locality], western Queensland, June 1987, B. Harvey ( NMV K4478).

Diagnosis. Females differ from those of Eupograpta kottae sp. nov. in that the median septum of the epigyne is trianguloid ( Fig. 13 View FIGURE 13 b), converging anteriorly to posteriorly.

Etymology. A noun in apposition taken from acronym of the software (Australian Natural Heritage Assessment Tool) used by staff at Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts to guide surveys of nationally important natural history sites and that yielded the male of D. peterandrewsi as well as many new species of Oonopidae and Prodidomidae .

Description. Female (holotype, NMV K4478)

Carapace 3.44 long, 2.38 wide. Abdomen 4.69 long, 3.00 wide. Total length, 8.5. Like D. striola except: Legs. 1: 2.38, 1.31, 1.94, 1.69, 1.06; 8.38. 2: 2.31, 1.13, 1.88, 1.88, 1.00; 7.88. 3: 2.13, 1.06, 1.50, 1.56, 0.94; 7.19. 4: 3.13, 1.31, 2.44, 2.63, 1.19; 10.70. Palp: 1.00, 0.56, 0.56, –, 0.94; 3.06. Spines. I: fe p2d2; ti v2.2; me v2 not strong. II: fe p2d2; ti v1.1; me v2. III: fe p3d3r2; ti p2r 2v 2.2 (v1.2.2 weak); me p2r 1v 2.1. IV: fe p2d2r1; ti p2d2r 2v 1.2.2; me p5r 5v 2.1.1. Palp: fe d1.2; pa p1d1 apical; ti p3r2; ta p3r 1 v 2 apical. Epigyne ( Figs 13 View FIGURE 13 b, c). Externally a median elongate tongue-like septum overlying pallid rounded cones extending deeply, and with strong sinuous lateral ridge and anteriorly narrowed.

Male Unknown.

Distribution and habitat ( Fig. 25 View FIGURE 25 a). Known only from the "Birdsville Track to Mt Isa", far western Queensland, an area of open grassland, gibber plains, and desert.