Karaops vadlaadambara Crews & Harvey, 2011

Fig. 1E, F, Maps 1, 2

Karaops vadlaadambara Crews & Harvey, 2011: 59, figs 51-54 (♂, ♀, examined).

Diagnosis.

The male of Karaops vadlaadambara (Fig. 1F) has a darkened tip of the conductor and a basal extension of the conductor that nearly covers the distal branch of the median apophysis (Crews and Harvey 2011: fig. 51). The median lobe of the female is nearly uniform in width throughout its length and the spermathecae and accessory bulbs form a straight vertical line (Crews and Harvey 2011: fig. 53). In K. manaayn, they are angled outward (Crews and Harvey 2011: figs 47, 48).

Description.

The description of the male and female can be found in Crews and Harvey (2011).

Distribution.

This species is known only from the Gammon and Flinders Ranges, South Australia (Map 2).

Natural history.

The climate of the collection localities is semiarid to arid with erratic rainfall. Females and males have been collected in cooler, slightly wetter times of the year, with one male collected at a warmer, wetter time of year (Suppl. material 2: table S1). At least one specimen was collected at night and another in a pitfall trap.

Discussion.

Karaops vadlaadambara (Fig. 1E, F) is the only species of the Central Desert species group known from more than one or two specimens (three males and six females). It also does not technically occur in the Central Desert, but it is part of the Eyrean or Eastern Desert region of Ebach et al. (2013), or the Northern and Central Flinders subregions of the Flinders Lofty Block in the IBRA (Maps 1, 2).