Lampona mildura, PLATNICK, 2000

PLATNICK, NORMAN I., 2000, A Relimitation And Revision Of The Australasian Ground Spider Family Lamponidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2000 (245), pp. 1-328 : 85-86

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2000)245<0001:ARAROT>2.0.CO;2

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B887CE-B40F-FF92-C5C5-71F7E25AFD7E

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scientific name

Lampona mildura
status

sp. nov.

Lampona mildura View in CoL , new species

Figures 178–181 View Figs ; Map 18 View Map 18

TYPE: Female holotype taken under bark of Eucalyptus camaldulensis 5 km W Mildura, Victoria, 348109S, 1428069E (Sept. 21, 1985; M. Harvey, B. Scott, L. Hoare), deposited in AMS ( KS31888 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Females resemble those of L. yanchep and L. garnet but can be distin­

guished by the almost pentagonal epigynal midpiece (fig. 180). The male tentatively matched with the holotype resembles that specimen in coloration, sternal sculpturing, and femoral shape, and can easily be recognized by the odd shape of the retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 179).

MALE: Total length 5.2. Abdominal dorsum light anteriorly, with dark chevrons posteriorly; anterior femora slightly darkened, posterior femora with subdistal, tibiae with proximal and distal dark rings. Palpal femur darkened throughout its length but otherwise unmodified; retrolateral tibial apophysis lobe­shaped, with narrow tip (fig. 179); tegulum short; embolus short, narrow, almost obscured by conductor in ventral view (fig. 178).

FEMALE: Total length 4.6. Coloration as in male, except posterior leg markings not evident (specimen probably collected soon after molt, before fully sclerotized). Epigynum with v­shaped lateral margins (fig. 180); spermathecae with anterior portion rotund (fig. 181).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: New South Wales: Barren Grounds , 348429S, 1508439E, Sept. 3, 1996 ( AMS KS49695 ), 1 ?; Mount Keira, 348249S, 1508519E, no date, Berlese , rotting log, rainforest, elev. ca. 1000 ft (E. Britton, QMB), 1 ?.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from northwestern Victoria and southern New South Wales (map 18).

QMB

Queensland Museum, Brisbane

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Lamponidae

Genus

Lampona

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