Desognaphosa windsor, 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-

Desognaphosa windsor , new species Figures 259–262 ; Map 17

TYPE: Female holotype taken in a pitfall trap in open forest at an elevation of 900 m on the SE Windsor Tableland, 16 ° 18 ̍ S, 145 ° 05 ̍ E, Queensland (Nov. 25, 1997 – Feb. 9, 1998; G. Monteith, D. Cook), deposited in QMB ( S43914 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the small, triangular retrolateral tibial apophysis, which is shorter than the medially bent paracymbial apophysis (fig. 260), females by the oblique anterior portions of the median epigynal ducts, which are widened at the posterolateral margins of the epigynal atrium (figs. 261, 262).

MALE: Total length 4.5. Coloration as in D. malbon . Leg spination: tibiae: III v2­1p­ 2; IV v2­2­2, r0­1­1; metatarsi: III v2­0­2; IV p0­1­0, v2­2­2, r1­1­0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis small, triangular, shorter than medially bent paracymbial apophysis (fig. 260); embolus short, twisted terminal elements of palpal bulb with short, beak­shaped tip (fig. 259).

FEMALE: Total length 4.9. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: tibiae: III v2­1p­2; IV p0­0­1, v2­2­2, r0­1­1; metatarsi: III v2­0­2; IV p0­1­1, v2­2­2, r1­1­0. Epigynal atrium short, lateral margins semicircular (fig. 261); median ducts in y­shaped configuration, reaching sides of epigynal atrium (fig. 262).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: SE Windsor Tableland, 16 ° 18 ̍ S, 145 ° 05 ̍ E, Feb. 9–May 17, 1998, intercept trap, open forest, elev. 850 m (G. Monteith, D. Cook, QMB S42436 ), 13 ; Mount Windsor Tableland, Whypalla State Forest , 16 ° 13 ̍ S, 144 ° 59 ̍ E, summer 1992–1993, pitfall, open forest, elev. 1120 m (S. Burnett, QMB S33167 ), 1♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the Mount Windsor Tableland, northeastern Queensland (map 17).

Figures

Map 17. Records of Desognaphosa funnel, new species (diamond), D. massey, new species (circles), and D. windsor, new species (squares).

Figs. 259–262. Desognaphosa windsor, new species. 259. Left male palp, ventral view. 260. Same, retrolateral view. 261. Epigynum, ventral view. 262. Same, dorsal view.