Graycassis scrub, 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 : 244

Graycassis scrub , new species

Figures 578, 579 ; Map 70

TYPE: Male holotype taken in a pitfall trap at a site NW of Rocky Creek crossing in Big Scrub Flora Reserve , 288389S, 1538199E, New South Wales (Feb. 4–Apr. 9, 1993; M. Gray, G. Cassis), deposited in AMS ( KS35930 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the enormously widened distal tip of the median apophysis (figs. 578, 579).

MALE: Total length 3.4. Coloration as in G. bruxner . Leg spination: tibiae: III v0­1p­ 2; IV v1p­1p­2; metatarsi III v1p­1r­0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis bifid, ventral portion separated from dorsal portion by distinct notch (fig. 579); median apophysis enormously widened distally (fig. 578).

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality in New South Wales (map 70).

Figures

Map 70. Records of Graycassis bulga, new species (squares) and G. scrub, new species (circle).

Figs. 578–581. 578, 579. Graycassis scrub, new species. 580, 581. Asadipus mountant, new species. 578. Left male palp, ventral view. 579. Same, retrolateral view. 580. Epigynum, ventral view. 581. Same, dorsal view.