Eterosonycha alpina Butler, 1932

Rix, Michael & Harvey, Mark, 2010, The spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneoidea): a relimitation and revision at the generic level, ZooKeys 36 (36), pp. 1-321 : 38-39

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https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.36.306

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3789387

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scientific name

Eterosonycha alpina Butler, 1932
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Eterosonycha alpina Butler, 1932

Figs 11D, 48–50, 51A–B, 56–60, 71A, 222

Eterosonycha alpina Butler, 1932: 115 , pl. 2, figs 7–13. Roewer, 1942: 357. Bonnet, 1956: 1803. Davies, 1985: 113. Platnick, 2009.

Textricella parva Hickman, 1945: 137 , figs 1–5, 16. Forster, 1959: 285, fig. 1. Forster & Platnick, 1981: 266, figs 16–17, 23–24. Brignoli, 1983: 375, 695. Davies, 1985: 114. Platnick, 2009. syn. n.

Type material (of E. alpina ). Syntype male and slide-mounted female: Mount Kosciusko, New South Wales, Australia, in sphagnum moss, I.1931 (♁)/ XI.1923 (♀), C. Oke ( NMV K099/K098).

Type material (of T. parva ). Syntype male and female: The Cascades, Mount Wellington, Tasmania, Australia, from moss, 26.VI.1943 ( AMS KS6694).

Selected material examined. AUSTRALIA: Tasmania: Mt Wellington, Lenah Valley , 27.IV.2007, M. Rix, 6♁, 7♀ ( WAM T77729) ; Mt Wellington, Woods Track to O’Grady’s Falls , 28.IV.2006, M. Rix, L. Boutin, 26♁, 49♀ ( WAM T94105 SEM♁ ♀) ; same data, 1♁ ( WAM T80030 DNA-MPE) ; Cuckoo Falls walk, near Scottsdale , 26.IV.2006, M. Rix, 20♁, 36♀ ( WAM T94106) .

Remarks. Eterosonycha alpina is a distinctive, relatively widespread species, found throughout Tasmania and on the Australian mainland north to at least southern New South Wales. Females possess an unmistakeable external epigyne ( Fig. 48D View Figure 48 ) – a characteristic shared by most species of Eterosonycha . Specimens of this species can be extremely abundant in mossy habitats in Tasmania, and E. alpina is the dominant microspider in moss on Mount Wellington, near Hobart, Tasmania (an observation also noted by Hickman 1945).

NMV

Museum Victoria

WAM

Western Australian Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Micropholcommatidae

Genus

Eterosonycha

Loc

Eterosonycha alpina Butler, 1932

Rix, Michael & Harvey, Mark 2010
2010
Loc

Textricella parva

Davies VT 1985: 114
Brignoli PM 1983: 375
Forster RR & Platnick NI 1981: 266
Forster RR 1959: 285
Hickman VV 1945: 137
1945
Loc

Eterosonycha alpina Butler, 1932: 115

Davies VT 1985: 113
Bonnet P 1956: 1803
Roewer CF 1942: 357
Butler LSG 1932: 115
1932
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