Lamponella kanangra, 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 : 160-161

Lamponella kanangra , new species Figures 368–371 ; Map 42

TYPE: Female holotype taken in litter in a Eucalyptus radiata ­dalrympleana association at Blood Filly Creek, near Jenolan Caves , Kanangra­Boyd National Park , 338539S, 1508049E, New South Wales (Mar. 27, 1976; M. Gray, G. Hunt, J. McDougall), deposited in AMS ( KS29968 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the thumb­shaped retrolateral tibial apophysis and protuberant tegulum (figs. 368, 369), females by the extremely narrow epigynal midpiece (fig. 370) and anteriorly expanded spermathecae (fig. 371).

MALE: Total length 3.2. Abdominal dorsum gray, with only vague indications of pair of anterior pale spots; legs unmarked. Palpal femur short, unmodified; retrolateral tibial apophysis thumb­shaped (fig. 369); tegulum moderately expanded, reaching to about onefourth of tibial length, with distinct protuberance on retrolateral side; embolus rela­

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tively wide, short, median apophysis relatively large (fig. 368).

FEMALE: Total length 4.1. Coloration as in male. Epigynal midpiece narrow, situated posterior of depressed anteromedian openings (fig. 370); spermathecae expanded, bulbous anteriorly (fig. 371).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: New South Wales: Kanangra­Boyd National Park, 348019S, 1508059E, Mar. 20, 1982, Berlese, closed forest litter and moss (L. Hill, QMB), 1?.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from New South Wales (map 42).

Figures

Map 42. Records of Lamponella beaury, new species (circles), L. kanangra, new species (squares), and L. wyandotte, new species (triangles).

Figs. 368–371. Lamponella kanangra, new species. 368. Left male palp, ventral view. 369. Same, retrolateral view. 370. Epigynum, ventral view. 371. Same, dorsal view.