Lampona torbay, 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 : 76

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-B410-FF8C-C5C4-77BCE06AFBDE

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scientific name

Lampona torbay
status

sp. nov.

Lampona torbay View in CoL , new species

Figures 100, 101 View Figs ; Map 14 View Map 14

TYPE: Female holotype from Torbay Inlet, 358019S, 1178419E, Western Australia (Jan. 2, 1978; B. Main), deposited in WAM (96/ 1526) courtesy of Dr. Barbara York Main .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Only females are known, and it is difficult to identify their closest relatives; the epigynal midpiece is wide (fig. 100) and the spermathecae are bipartite, with the posterior portion long and the anterior portion rounded (fig. 101).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE: Total length 9.2. Abdominal dorsum with anterior pairs of white spots fused, leaving median, longitudinal dark stripes on cardiac area and most of posterior half of abdomen; venter unmarked except where lateral dark markings approach spinnerets. Epigynal septum v­shaped, wide posteriorly, without distinct anterior margin although surface is depressed across top of septum (fig. 100); basal portion of spermathecae short, wide, distal portion rounded (fig. 101).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Western Australia: Callcup, Warren River , 348369S, 1158549E, Oct. 30–Nov. 5, 1997, bush, elev. 100 m (J. Murphy, JAM), 1 /; Torbay Inlet , 358019S, 1178419E, Jan. 5, 1979 (B. Main, CBM), 1 /.

DISTRIBUTION: Southwestern Australia (map 14).

WAM

Western Australian Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Lamponidae

Genus

Lampona

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