Meedo bluff, 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-

Meedo bluff , new species Figures 127, 128 ; Map 5

TYPE: Female holotype taken in pitfall trap on Sir Bertram Stevens Drive, ca. 0.7 km S Red Bluff, Royal National Park, 34 ° 07 ̍ S, 151 ° 04 ̍ E, New South Wales (Dec. 6–20,

1999; M. Gray, G. Milledge, H. Smith), deposited in AMS (KS63265).

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

DIAGNOSIS: The wide, anteriorly situated epigynal atrium (fig. 127) and long spermathecae (fig. 128) are diagnostic.

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE: Total length 6.8. Carapace light brown, abdominal dorsum dark gray with darker cardiac mark and scattered, tiny white spots, legs light brown proximally, orange brown distally. Chelicerae vertical, endites relatively short. All tarsi entire. Epigynal atrium situated anteriorly, extending almost full width of epigynum (fig. 127); spermathecae long, anterior portions with projections at their posterolateral corners (fig. 128).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: New South Wales: Sir Bertram Stevens Drive, ca. 0.3 km E Artillery Hill, Royal National Park , 34 ° 05 ̍ S, 151 ° 04 ̍ E, pitfall (M. Gray, G. Milledge, H. Smith, AMS KS63172 ), 1♀ ; Sir Bertram Stevens Drive, ca. 0.7 km S Red Bluff, Royal National Park , 34 ° 07 ̍ S, 151 ° 04 ̍ E, Dec. 6–20, 1999, pitfalls (M. Gray, G. Milledge, H. Smith, AMS KS63265 ), 1♀ ; Sydney area (‘‘probably Audley National Park’ ’), 1973 (possibly R. Moran, ANIC), 1♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from New

South Wales (map 5).

Figures

Map 5. Records of Meedo broadwater, new species (circles), M. yeni, new species (squares), and M. bluff, new species (diamonds).

Figs. 125–128. 125, 126. Oreo muncoonie, new species. 127, 128. Meedo bluff, new species. 125. Left male palp, ventral view. 126. Same, retrolateral view. 127. Epigynum, ventral view. 128. Same, dorsal view.