Lampona davies, 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 : 115-116

Lampona davies , new species Figures 258–261 ; Map 30

TYPE: Female holotype from Davies Creek , 168559S, 1458329E, Queensland (Mar. 12, 1972; N. Coleman), deposited in QMB (28102) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the almost straight retrolateral edge of those parts of the retrolateral tibial apophysis posterior to the angled tip (fig. 259), females by the greatly widened median portions of the spermathecae, which flank the narrow epigynal midpiece (figs. 260, 261).

MALE: Total length 4.9. Abdominal dorsum with vague indications of fused anterior and median white spots; anterior femora darkened, posterior femora with subdistal, posterior tibiae with proximal and distal dark rings. Palpal femur darkened, basal portion flattened laterally, otherwise unmodified; re trolateral tibial apophysis almost straight below angled tip (fig. 259); tegulum slightly expanded, reaching to about one­fourth of tibial length; embolus with long, narrow tip recessed far behind conductor (fig. 258).

FEMALE: Total length 5.2. Coloration as in male. Epigynal midpiece long, narrow, flanked by enlarged median portions of spermathecae (figs. 260, 261).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: Davies Creek , 168559S, 1458329E, Mar. 12, 1972 (N. Coleman, QMB 28102), 1/ (plus holotype) ; Mount Lewis , 20 km SW Mossman, 168289S, 1458229E, June 26–Aug. 1, 1982, intercept trap, rainforest, elev. 1000 m (S., J. Peck, AMNH), 1 ?; North Bell Peak , 20 km S Cairns, 168559S, 1458469E, Sept. 15–16, 1981, pyrethrum knockdown, elev. 900–1000 m (G. Monteith, D. Cook, QMB S28080 ), 1 ?; Pauls Luck, Carbine Tableland , 168279S, 1458169E, Nov. 29, 1990 (G. Monteith, H. Janetzki, QMB S34402 ), 1 ?; Upper Whyanbeel Creek , 168239S, 1458179E, Sept. 5, 1992, pyrethrum, mossy rocks, elev. 1150 m (G. Monteith, QMB S40185), 1 ?.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from northern Queensland (map 30).

Figures

Map 30. Records of Lampona carlisle, new species (circles) and L. davies, new species (squares).

Figs. 258–261. Lampona davies, new species. 258. Left male palp, ventral view. 259. Same, retrolateral view. 260. Epigynum, ventral view. 261. Same, dorsal view.