Molycria moranbah, 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 : 85-86

Molycria moranbah , new species Figures 203–206; Map 14

TYPE: Male holotype taken in pitfall trap in scrub 5 km S of Moranbah, 22 ° 029S,

148 ° 039E, Queensland (June 25–Dec. 20, 1997; G. Monteith, E. Kruck), deposited in QMB (S66602) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of M. tooloombah in having a short, wide median apophysis, but have a shorter retrolateral tibial apophysis and a dorsal tibial projection bearing stiff setae (figs. 205, 206).

MALE: Total length 2.66. Carapace 1.24 long, 1.08 wide, 0.42 high, length/width 1.15; sternum 0.70 long, 0.68 wide, length/width 1.03; abdomen 1.42 long, 0.82 wide; coxa I 0.42 long; relative length of coxae I–IV 1.00:0.86:0.76:0.95. Cephalothorax, legs orange; abdominal dorsum gray, with half ringshaped pale spot in front of spinnerets, venter pale. Carapace weakly covered with cinnamon, plumose setae. Eye group width 0.78 of caput width; AME 0.13; ALE 0.10; PME 0.14; PLE 0.10; AME–AME 0.02; AME– ALE 0.02; PME–PME 0.02; PME–PLE 0.04; ALE–PLE 0.02; eye group AME–PME 0.3; AME–AME 0.28; PME–PME 0.30. Clypeus 0.08 high. Abdomen covered with cinnamon, plumose setae; ALS 0.42 of abdominal length, contiguous. Palp (figs. 203–206): conductor originating medially, long, grooved

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Figs. 198–202. Molycria tooloomba , new species. 198. Left male palp, prolateral view. 199. Same, ventral view. 200. Same, retrolateral view. 201. Epigynum, ventral view. 202. Same, dorsal view.

longitudinally, with greatly expanded, twist- ed, distal part, sharp prolaterally directed tip; median apophysis scythe-shaped; sperm duct semicircular; embolus long, thin, semicircular, embolar base separated from tegulum, conical; tibia about 1.5 times as long as wide, with dorsal field of macrosetae on dorsal tibial projection; retrolateral tibial apophysis short, excavated, rectangular, with distally bent tip.

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: 5 km S Moranbah, 22 ° 029S, 148 ° 039E, June 25–Dec. 20, 1997, scrub pitfall (G. Monteith, E. Kruck, QMB S44218 ), 3Oi.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality in central Queensland (map 14).