Lampona ooldea, 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 : 93-94

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2000)245<0001:ARAROT>2.0.CO;2

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B887CE-B407-FF9A-C78D-71FFE154FC33

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Lampona ooldea
status

sp. nov.

Lampona ooldea View in CoL , new species

Figures 198–201 View Figs ; Map 21 View Map 21

TYPE: Female holotype from Ooldea , 308279S, 1318509E, South Australia (July 1921; J. Rushaw), deposited in NMV ( K3431 About NMV ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males and females have not been taken together and may be mismatched, but both resemble the preceding three spe­ cies; males differ in having a low, rounded subbasal protuberance on the palpal femur (fig. 199), females in having a much shorter epigynal midpiece (fig. 200).

MALE: Total length 7.6. Coloration as in L. cylindrata but with paired white abdominal stripes reduced to spots. Palpal femur with sinuously bulging ventral protuberance; retrolateral tibial apophysis dorsally angular, bearing ventral tooth (fig. 199); tegulum globose, extending to about one­third of tibial length; embolar tip long, abruptly narrowed, prolaterally situated (fig. 198).

FEMALE: Total length 8.0. Coloration as in male. Epigynal midpiece very short, greatly widened anteriorly, lateral margins very short, rounded (fig. 200); anterior portion of spermathecae bulbous (fig. 201).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Victoria: McLellands Road, 0.1 km N Rathbones Road, 368099S, 1458149E, July 18–23, 1994, pitfall (S. Hinkley, P. Lillywhite, G. Milledge, NMVS), 1? .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from southern South Australia and Victoria (map 21).

NMV

Museum Victoria

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Lamponidae

Genus

Lampona

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