Lamponella wombat, 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 : 163-164

Lamponella wombat , new species Figures 376, 377 ; Map 43

TYPE: Male holotype taken at an elevation of 750 m at Wombat Creek , 6 km NE Piccadilly Circus, 358199S, 1488519E, Australian Capital Territory (June 1985; T. Weir, J. Lawrence, M. Johnson), deposited in QMB .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the small median apophysis almost superimposed on the embolus (fig. 376).

MALE: Total length 3.1. Abdominal dorsum gray, with only vague indications of pair of anterior pale spots; legs unmarked. Palpal femur short, straight, unmodified; retrolateral tibial apophysis short, thumb­shaped (fig. 377); tegulum moderately expanded, reaching to about one­fourth of tibial length; tip of embolus situated medially, overlapped in ventral view by small median apophysis (fig. 376).

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Australian Capital Territory: Blundells Creek , 3 km E Piccadilly Circus, 358229S, 1488509E, Jan. 1985, elev. 850 m (T. Weir, J. Lawrence, M. Johnson, QMB), 1 ?; Piccadilly Circus , 358229S, 1488489E, Feb. 1984, elev. 1240 m (J. Lawrence, T. Weir, M. Johnson, QMB), 1 ?; Wombat Creek , 6 km NE Piccadilly Circus, 358199S, 1488519E, Mar. 1984 –1985, elev. 750 m (T. Weir, J. Lawrence, M. Johnson, QMB), 2?, Aug.–Sept. 1985, elev. 750 m (T. Weir, J. Lawrence, M. Johnson, QMB), 2 ?.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the Australian Capital Territory (map 43).

Figures

Map 43. Records of Lamponella wombat, new species (circles) and L. brookfield, new species (squares).

Figs. 376–379. 376, 377. Lamponella wombat, new species. 378, 379. Lamponella kroombit, new species. 376. Left male palp, ventral view. 377. Same, retrolateral view. 378. Epigynum, ventral view. 379. Same, dorsal view.