Lampona gosford, 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 : 106

Lampona gosford , new species Figures 234–237 ; Map 26

TYPE: Female holotype from Gosford , 338269S, 1518209E, New South Wales (Oct. 12, 1977; R. Mascord), deposited in AMS ( KS31932 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: The tentatively associated males resemble those of L. fife in having a long, sinuous palpal femur and a triangular, setose retrolateral tibial apophysis, but differ in having that apophysis and the embolar tip shorter (figs. 234, 235). Females can easily be recognized by the elongate epigynum with a distinct anterior margin and club­shaped spermathecae (figs. 236, 237).

MALE: Total length 7.6. Abdominal dorsum with median pair of white stripes fused medially into w­shaped markings; basal portion of anterior femora greatly darkened. Palpal femur long, sinuous, darkened; retrolateral tibial apophysis triangular, setose, relatively small (fig. 235); tegulum globose, extending to half of tibial length; conductor not quite covering prolateral side of embolus (fig. 234).

FEMALE: Total length 11.5. Abdominal dorsum with median pair of white stripes not quite fused medially; anterior femora completely darkened. Epigynum long, with distinct anterior margin, openings at about onethird of length (fig. 236); spermathecae tripartite, club­shaped (fig. 237).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: New South Wales: Wongawilli, 348299S, 1508469E, Aug. 13, 1966 (R. Mascord, AMS KS31933), 3/. Victoria: Mitta Mitta River, 5 km N Omeo, 378069S, 1478369E, Feb. 28, 1993 (G. Milledge, NMV K3671), 1?.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from New South Wales and Victoria (map 26).

Figures

Map 26. Records of Lampona superbus, new species (squares) and L. gosford, new species (circles).

Figs. 234–237. Lampona gosford, new species. 234. Left male palp, ventral view. 235. Same, retrolateral view. 236. Epigynum, ventral view. 237. Same, dorsal view.