Asadipus palmerston, 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 : 249-250

Asadipus palmerston , new species

Figures 590, 591 ; Map 71

TYPE: Male holotype taken in a house at Palmerston , 128279S, 1308509E, Northern Territory (Feb. 19, 1986; Turner), deposited in AMS ( KS50314 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: This species is closely related to A. croydon , with a similarly bifid tip on the retrolateral tibial apophysis, but males can be distinguished by the much wider terminal apophysis (fig. 590).

MALE: Total length 7.5. Abdominal venter pale orange with four longitudinal rows of small, circular sclerites, sclerites of two median rows much larger than those of lateral rows; legs blackish red. Leg spination: tibiae III, IV p0­0­0, v0­0­2, r0­0­0; metatarsi III, IV v0­0­0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis short, narrow, distally bifid (fig. 591); median

apophysis small, folded, heavily sclerotized, terminal apophysis with wide, translucent, prolateral flange (fig. 590).

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the Northern Territory (map 71).

Figures

Map 71. Records of Asadipus insolens (Simon) (circle), A. croydon, new species (squares), A. palmerston, new species (triangle), and A. phaleratus (Simon) (inverted triangles).

Figs. 590–593. 590, 591. Asadipus palmerston, new species. 592, 593. Notsodipus blackall, new species. 590. Left male palp, ventral view. 591. Same, retrolateral view. 592. Epigynum, ventral view. 593. Same, dorsal view.