Molycria nipping, Platnick & Baehr, 2006

Platnick, N. I. & Baehr, B., 2006, A Revision Of The Australasian Ground Spiders Of The Family Prodidomidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2006 (298), pp. 1-287 : 28-29

Molycria nipping group

33. Palpal femur with ventral process, tibia with field of stiff setae (fig. 140).................... M. dawson

– Palpal femur without ventral process, tibia without field of stiff setae (fig. 145).............. 34

34. Embolar base situated medially, conductor narrow (fig. 144).... M. drummond

– Embolar base situated prolaterally, conductor wider (fig. 149).......... 35

35. Embolus thin, semicircular; tibia about 1.5 times as long as wide (fig. 149)................... M. wallacei

– Embolus finger-shaped; tibia twice as long as wide (fig. 134).... M. nipping

Females

36. Atrium broadly oval, at least twice as wide as long, laterally depressed, if not laterally depressed, then broadly triangular (fig. 64)... ( mammosa group) 40

– Atrium not as above, or absent.... 45

37. AME largest................. 38

– AME equal to PME or smaller.... 40

38. Atrium anteriorly about half as wide as posteriorly (fig. 74)...... M. milledgei

– Atrium anteriorly as wide as posteriorly (fig. 79)..................... 39

39. Epigynal ducts almost touching, less than half of their diameter apart (fig. 80)................ M. grayi

– Epigynal ducts situated more laterally, about their diameter apart (fig. 65).................. M. mammosa

40. Abdomen covered with recumbent scales; atrium triangular (fig. 89)........................ M. kaputar

– Abdomen covered with plumose setae; atrium anteriorly as wide as posteriorly....................... 41

41. Epigynal ducts large, reaching anterior margin (fig. 95)............... 42

– Epigynal ducts reaching only posterior margin of atrium (fig. 70)........ 43

42. Anterior portion of epigynal ducts not sshaped (fig. 95)......... M. goanna

– Anterior portion of epigynal ducts sshaped (fig. 102)....... M. wardeni

43. Epigynal ducts restricted to the median portion of the epigynum (fig. 70).................... M. smithae

– Epigynal ducts extending for the full width of the atrium (fig. 85)...... 44

44. Epigynal ducts with spermathecae in double s-shaped position (fig. 85)..................... M. bundjalung

– Epigynal ducts laterally hooked, in xshaped position with spermathecae (fig. 100)............. M. wrightae