Queenvic kelty, 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 : 211-212

Queenvic kelty , new species Figures 514–517 ; Map 58

TYPE: Female holotype taken under eucalypt bark at Separation Creek , 388389S, 1438549E, Victoria (Sept. 19–21, 1989; M. Harvey, M. Blosfelds), deposited in WAM (96/204) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is an arbitrary combination of letters.

DIAGNOSIS: This seems to be the sister species of Q. mackay ; males can be distinguished by having the longer, thinner, and more distally directed distal prong of the palpal conductor situated farther from the subdistal prong (fig. 514), females by the longer anterior epigynal ducts situated near the epigynal hood (fig. 516).

MALE: Total length 2.5. Coloration as in Q. mackay except abdominal dorsum with anterior pair of spots weak, posterior stripes situated at about half of abdominal length; anterior femora darkened on all sides. Leg spination typical for genus. Retrolateral tibial apophysis shorter, basally wider than in Q. mackay (fig. 515); distal prong of conductor narrow, long, directed distally, well separated from retrolaterally directed subdistal prong (fig. 514).

FEMALE: Total length 3.2. Coloration as in male. Leg spination typical for genus. Epigynal hood near anterior ducts (fig. 516); anterior ducts extending to sides of epigynum (fig. 517).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: South Australia: Grassdale, Kelly Hill Conservation Park, 368009S, 1368529E, Nov. 9, 1987, pitfall (D. Hirst, SAM N1997/85), 1?. Victoria: Separation Creek, 388389S, 1438549E, Aug. 28, 1988, Berlese, rotting bark (M. Harvey, M. Blosfelds, WAM 96/203), 1?, Sept. 19–21, 1989, under eucalypt bark (M. Harvey, M. Blosfelds, WAM 96/205), 1/.

DISTRIBUTION: South Australia and Victoria (map 58).

Figures

Map 58. Records of Queenvic kelty, new species (squares) and Q. goanna, new species (circles).

Figs. 514–517. Queenvic kelty, new species. 514. Left male palp, ventral view. 515. Same, retrolateral view. 516. Epigynum, ventral view. 517. Same, dorsal view.