Lampona taroom, 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 : 79-81

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-B415-FF97-C781-7157E2B1FB61

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Felipe

scientific name

Lampona taroom
status

sp. nov.

Lampona taroom View in CoL , new species

Figures 162–165 View Figs ; Map 16 View Map 16

TYPE: Male holotype taken in baited flight intercept trap at Boggomoss, via Taroom , 258269S, 1508019E, Queensland (Nov. 12, 1996 – Jan. 1997; D. Cook, G. Monteith), deposited in QMB ( S36315 View Materials ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: This species seems closest to L. yanchep , sharing with it a subbasal knob on the male palpal femur and a deeply excavated epigynal atrium; males differ in having a longer, more curved tip on the retro­ lateral tibial apophysis (fig. 163), females in having an anteriorly narrower epigynal atrium (fig. 164).

MALE: Total length 7.2. Abdominal dorsum shrunken from cuticle, markings indistinct, apparently with paramedian white markings, venter and legs unmarked. Palpal femur with distinct subbasal knob; retrolateral tibial apophysis long, with recurved tip (fig. 163); palpal bulb elongate, embolus with long, strong tip (fig. 162).

FEMALE: Total length 7.0. Abdominal dorsum with markings indistinct but apparently with posterior white chevrons, venter unmarked, tibiae IV with subdistal, slightly darkened rings. Epigynum with longitudinal atrium, deeply excavated anteriorly (fig. 164); spermathecae tripartite, median portions much longer than anterior or posterior portions (fig. 165).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: Taroom District, 258259S, 1498589E, Sept. 10–Nov. 12, 1996, pitfall, vine thicket on hill (P. Lawless, QMB S34406 View Materials ), 1/.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from southeastern Queensland (map 16).

QMB

Queensland Museum, Brisbane

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Lamponidae

Genus

Lampona

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