Lamponella beaury, 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 : 159-160

Lamponella beaury , new species Figures 364–367 ; Map 42

TYPES: Female holotype and male allotype taken in pitfall traps at an elevation of 630 m at Rocky Waterhole, Beaury State Forest , 288339S, 1528199E, New South Wales (Feb. 4–Apr. 9, 1993; M. Gray, G. Cassis), deposited in AMS ( KS36103 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the basally free, broadly triangular embolus and large median apophysis (figs. 364, 365), females by the heart­shaped epigynal midpiece and widely separated spermathecae (figs. 366, 367).

MALE: Total length 3.6. Abdominal dorsum dark gray, with pale anterior patch (mostly obscured by scutum), two pairs of small white cardiac spots (anterior and part of median pair obscured by scutum) and series of posterior white hairline chevrons; legs unmarked, anteriors darker than posteriors. Palpal femur unmodified; retrolateral tibial apophysis represented only by rounded lobe (fig. 365); cymbium with dorsodistal scopula; tegulum globose, reaching to about onefifth of tibial length; embolus not fused basally to tegulum, broadly triangular, tip straight; median apophysis wide, hookshaped, situated opposite base of embolus (fig. 364).

FEMALE: Total length 5.2. Coloration as in male. Epigynal midpiece heart­shaped, depressed anteriorly (fig. 366); spermathecae widely separated, medially constricted (fig. 367).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: New South Wales: Bulls Ground State Forest, near Wauchope , 318279S, 1528449E, Feb. 10, 1991 (A. York, AMS KS43285 ), 1 /; 0.3 km S along Coxs Fence Trail from Boundary Road, Nerong State Forest , 318389S, 1528099E, Feb. 4–Apr. 9, 1993, pitfall, elev. 70 m (M. Gray, G. Cassis, AMS KS39607 ), 1 /; 0.95 km W Henry Road, London Bridge Road, S side of road, London Bridge State Forest, near W boundary of London Bridge Flora Reserve , 298509S, 1528129E, Feb. 4– Apr. 9, 1993, pitfall, elev. 630 m (M. Gray, G. Cassis, AMS KS36389 ), 1 ?; Richmond Range State Forest, 288459S, 1528459E, Apr. 17–18, 1976, open forest (R. Raven, QMB S26518 ), 1/. Queensland: Beerwah Forestry Reserve , 268519S, 1528579E, Apr. 24, 1991, pitfall, heath (M. Glover, QMB S32345 ), 1 ?; Ewan Maddock Dam , 268489S, 1528599E, Aug. 22, 1993 – Mar. 22, 1994, pitfall, open forest (M. Glover, QMB S30391 ), 1 ?; Rochedale State Forest, Brisbane , 278379S, 1538099E, Dec. 20, 1979 – Jan. 2, 1980, litter (V. Davies, R. Raven, QMB S34361 ), 2 ?; Windermere, near Glenmorgan , 278179S, 1498459E, Dec. 1990 – Sept. 1991, pitfall (R. Raven, B. Smyth, QMB S30363 ), 1 /.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from southeastern Queensland and 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. 364–367. Lamponella beaury, new species. 364. Left male palp, ventral view. 365. Same, retrolateral view. 366. Epigynum, ventral view. 367. Same, dorsal view.