Fissarena barlee, 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

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EAE52A-FF1D-A6E5-801D-27C2D9934827

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Fissarena barlee
status

sp. nov.

Fissarena barlee , new species Figures 513–516 View Figs ; Map 40 View Map 40

TYPE: Male holotype taken in pitfall trap in Barlee Range Nature Reserve , 23 ° 06 ̍ S, 115 ° 45 ̍ E, Western Australia (June 1994; S. van Leeuwen, B. Bromilow), deposited in WAM (99/491) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of F. castanea but have a much less angular palpal conductor (fig. 513); females also resemble those of F. castanea but have a rounded epi­ gynal atrium (fig. 515) and posteriorly enlarged epigynal ducts (fig. 516).

MALE: Total length 8. Coloration as in F. castanea . Leg spination: femora: II r0­1­0; III p1­1­0, r0­1­0; IV p1­1­0, r0­0­1; tibiae: I, II v1p­1p­2; III p1­0­0, r0­1­1; IV p1­0­1; metatarsi: II v2­1p­0; III p0­0­0, r1­0­0; IV p1­0­0, r0­1­0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis situated at about half of segment length, long, angular (fig. 514); palpal conductor not sharply angled (fig. 513).

FEMALE: Total length 10. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: femora: II r0­1­0; III p1­1­0, r0­1­0; IV d1­0­1, p1­0­0, r0­0­0; tibiae: I, II v1p­1p­2; III p0­0­0, r0­1­1; IV p1­0­1; metatarsi: II v2­0­0; III p0­0­0, r0­0­ 0; IV p1­0­0. Epigynal atrium rounded, with translucent flange (fig. 515); ducts enlarged posteriorly (fig. 516).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Western Australia: Barlee Range Nature Reserve , 23 ° 05 ̍ S, 115 ° 47 ̍ E, June 15–18, 1994, dry pitfall (P. G. Kendrick, WAM 99 View Materials /494), 1♀ ; Barlee Range Nature Reserve , 23 ° 06 ̍ S, 116 ° 00 ̍ E, June 19–22, 1994, dry pitfall (P. G. Kendrick, WAM 99 View Materials /492, 493), 23 ; Barlee Range Nature Reserve , 23 ° 23 ̍ S, 115 ° 53 ̍ E, June 11–14, 1994, dry pitfall (P., G. Kendrick, WAM 99 View Materials /495), 1♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the Barlee Range, Western Australia (map 40).

WAM

Western Australian Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Trochanteriidae

Genus

Fissarena

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