Lamponella wyandotte, 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 : 161-163

Lamponella wyandotte , new species Figures 372–375 ; Map 42

TYPE: Female holotype taken in a pitfall trap set in dry eucalypt woodland at Wyandotte Creek , 188299S, 1448559E, Queensland (July 26–Dec. 1, 1992; R. Raven, P., E. Lawless, M. Shaw), deposited in QMB ( S24335 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the long, prolaterally directed median apophysis, which occupies the distal onethird of the retrolateral surface of the palpal bulb (fig. 372), females by the sharply folded anterior tips of the epigynal margins (fig. 374).

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 short, triangular, directed ventrally (fig. 373); tegulum moderately expanded, reaching to about one­third of tibial length, greatly protuberant ventrally; embolus relatively narrow, widely separated from long median apophysis occupying distal third of prolateral surface of palpal bulb (fig. 372).

FEMALE: Total length 3.8. Coloration as in male. Epigynal midpiece anteriorly expand­ ed, margins sharply deflected at openings (fig. 374); anterior portion of spermathecae elongate, kidney­shaped (fig. 375).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: Davies Creek National Park , 178009S, 1458349E, Oct. 29, 1991 – July 23, 1992, pitfall (P. Lawless, R. Raven, M. Shaw, QMB S22741 ), 1 ?; 20 km WSW Eungella , 218129S, 1488189E, Nov. 18, 1981, Berlese, Eucalyptus browni woodland, elev. 350 m (A. Gillison, QMB), 1 /; Mount Windsor Tableland, Whypalla State Forest , 168139S, 1448599E, summer 1992–1993, pitfall, elev. 1120 m (S. Barnett, QMB S22667 ), 1/ (penultimate but with formed epigynum) ; Wyandotte Creek , 188299S, 1448559E, Nov. 6, 1991 – July 26, 1992, pitfall, dry eucalypt woodland (P. Lawless, R. Raven, M. Shaw, QMB S21784 ), 3/, Dec. 1, 1992 – Apr. 14, 1993, pitfall, dry eucalypt woodland (R., J., S. Raven, P., E. Lawless, QMB S24188 ), 2 /.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from northern Queensland (map 42).

Figures

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

Figs. 372–375. Lamponella wyandotte, new species. 372. Left male palp, ventral view. 373. Same, retrolateral view. 374. Epigynum, ventral view. 375. Same, dorsal view.