Notsodipus renmark, 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 : 281

Notsodipus renmark , new species Figures 678–681 ; Map 76

TYPE: Female holotype taken in flight intercept trap 31 km NW Renmark, 338599S, 1408309E, South Australia (Sept. 5–Oct. 12, 1995; K. Pullen), deposited in QMB ( S34343 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: This species resembles N. broadwater closely in the shape of the median prong of the terminal apophysis; males can be distinguished by the differently shaped tegulum (fig. 678); females (unknown in N. broadwater ) have a triangular epigynal atrium (fig. 680).

MALE: Total length 3.0. Abdominal dorsum without distinct patterning visible under scutum, venter with four longitudinal rows of small, orange, circular sclerites. Leg spination typical for genus. Retrolateral tibial apophysis long, narrow (fig. 679); median prong of terminal apophysis long, membranous except along dorsal edge, tegulum with medially situated lobe (fig. 678).

FEMALE: Total length 2.6. Coloration as in male, except abdominal venter without longitudinal rows sclerites. Leg spination typical for genus. Epigynal atrium triangular (fig. 680), median ducts widely separated (fig. 681).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: South Australia: 14 km WNW Renmark, 348079S, 1408379E, May 2–June 7, 1995, pitfall, mallee on dune (K. Pullen, QMB S32520 ), 1?. Victoria: 9 km ESE Hattah, 348489S, 1428229E, Apr. 12, 1989, live Triodia irritans foliage (J. Ludeke, NMV), 1?.

DISTRIBUTION: South Australia and Victoria (map 76).

Figures

Map 76. Records of Notsodipus broadwater, new species (circle), and N. renmark, new species (squares).

Figs. 678–681. Notsodipus renmark, new species. 678. Left male palp, ventral view. 679. Same, retrolateral view. 680. Epigynum, ventral view. 681. Same, dorsal view.