Lampona barrow, 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 : 58-59

Lampona barrow , new species

Figures 98, 99 ; Map 7

TYPE: Male holotype from Barrow Island , 208489S, 1158269E, Western Australia (Feb. 1997; H. Heatwole), deposited in QMB ( S34403 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males of this species can easily be recognized by their oddly shaped, distally bifid retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 99).

MALE: Total length 5.5. Holotype badly faded, few details of original coloration preserved. Palpal femur darkened, expanded proximally, retrolateral tibial apophysis bifid, with square subdistal lobe (fig. 99); embolus relatively short, distal edge of tegulum heavily sclerotized (fig. 98).

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Barrow Island, Western Australia (map 7).

Figures

Map 7. Records of Lampona barrow, new species (square) and L. chalmers, new species (circles).

Figs. 98–101. 98, 99. Lampona barrow, new species. 100, 101. L. torbay, new species. 98. Left male palp, ventral view. 99. Same, retrolateral view. 100. Epigynum, ventral view. 101. Same, dorsal view.