Paralampona cobon, 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 : 322-323

Paralampona cobon , new species Figures 800–803 ; Map 91

TYPES: Female holotype and male allotype from midslope pitfall traps at Cobon South Coupe , 378259S, 1488569E, Victoria (Apr. 6– 14, 1992; R. Coy), deposited in NMV ( K3601 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the long, arched embolus (fig. 800), females by the anterior spermathecal lobes (fig. 802).

MALE: Total length 1.9. Abdomen light gray dorsally, white ventrally, legs light orange. Palpal femur unmodified; retrolateral tibial apophysis extending from base of tibia almost to tip of palpal bulb (fig. 801), embolus long, arched (fig. 800).

FEMALE: Total length 2.5. Coloration as in male. Epigynum with rounded posterior margin (fig. 802); spermathecae with posteriorly directed anterior lobes (fig. 803).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Victoria: Cobon South Coupe, 378259S, 1488569E, Apr. 6–14, 1992, midslope pitfalls (R. Coy, NMV K3601), 1?, upslope pitfall (R. Coy, NMV 3549), 1?.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from eastern

Victoria (map 91).

Figures

Map 91. Records of Paralampona sherlock, new species (circles) and P. cobon, new species (square).

Figs. 800–803. Paralampona cobon, new species. 800. Left male palp, ventral view. 801. Same, retrolateral view. 802. Epigynum, ventral view. 803. Same, dorsal view.