Lamponella taroom, 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 : 167

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2000)245<0001:ARAROT>2.0.CO;2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10543492
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B887CE-B4FD-FF61-C5DF-779AE1ADFD63
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Lamponella taroom
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Lamponella taroom View in CoL , new species Figures 392–395 View Figs ; Map 45 View Map 45

TYPE: Male holotype taken in a pitfall trap in the Taroom District at Boggomoss No 8, 258279S, 1508029E, Queensland (Sept. 10– Nov. 11, 1996; P. Lawless), deposited in QMB ( S34364 View Materials ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the triangular embolus (fig. 392), females by the arched anterior epigynal margin and anteriorly expanded spermathecae (figs. 394, 395).

MALE: Total length 2.7. Abdominal dorsum dark gray, with scattered, small, rounded white markings and pale posterior hairline chevrons; legs unmarked. Retrolateral tibial apophysis small, triangular (fig. 393); palpal bulb posteriorly truncated, with flat, triangular embolus (fig. 392).

FEMALE: Total length 4.5. Abdominal dorsum light gray, with markings as in male. Epigynum with arched anterior margin situated at about half of epigynal length (fig. 394); spermathecae expanded, globose anteriorly (fig. 395).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: Taroom District, Boggomoss No. 1, 258269S, 1508029E, Sept. 9–Nov. 12, 1996, pitfall (P. Lawless, QMB ex S34412 View Materials ), 1 ?; Taroom District , Boggomoss No. 8, 258279S, 1508029E, Nov. 12, 1996, Berlese, sieved open forest litter, elev. 180 m (G. Monteith, QMB S34363 View Materials ), 1 /; Taroom District , 7 km N Ooline Scrub, 258369S, 1498469E, Sept. 11–Nov. 12, 1996, road verge, pitfall (P. Lawless, QMB S34365 View Materials ), 1 /; Taroom District , 9 km N of Ooline Scrub, 258359S, 1498469E, Nov. 10, 1996 – Jan. 12, 1997, road verge, pitfall (P. Lawless, QMB S36622 View Materials ), 1 /.