Asadipus areyonga, 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 : 263-264

Asadipus areyonga , new species

Figures 584, 585 ; Map 68

TYPE: Female holotype from 6 mi N Areyonga Aboriginal Settlement, 248049S, 1328169E, Northern Territory (May 16, 1976; I. Kowanko), deposited in SAM (1996/423) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Females of this species resemble those of A. yundamindra in having relatively long and narrow epigynal ducts, but differ in having a longer epigynum with a relatively elongated anterior portion (fig. 584) and spermathecae that are not greatly enlarged anteriorly (fig. 585).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE: Total length 9.0. Abdominal dorsum gray with posterior chevrons and oblique lines composed of small pale patches. Leg spination: tibiae III, IV p0­0­0, v1p­ 1p­2, r0­0­0; metatarsi: III v1p­0­0; IV v1r­ 1p­0. Epigynum elongated, especially anterior of most ducts (fig. 584); spermathecae relatively uniform in width throughout their length, ducts long, narrow (fig. 585).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Northern Territory: Cassia Hill Track, Simpson Gap, 238439S, 1338439E, May 1986, under stone (B. Scott, NMV K3416), 1/. Queensland: Ethabuka Station, Simpson Desert, 238469S, 1388289E, July 29, 1992, desert, dune swale floodplain (J. Henschel, QMB S34292 ), 1/.

DISTRIBUTION: Northern Territory and western Queensland (map 68).

Figures

Map 68. Records of Graycassis enfield, new species (squares), Asadipus baranar, new species (circles), and A. areyonga, new species (triangles).

Figs. 582–585. 582, 583. Asadipus insolens (Simon). 584, 585. A. areyonga, new species. 582. Left male palp, ventral view. 583. Same, retrolateral view. 584. Epigynum, ventral view. 585. Same, dorsal view.