Notsodipus upstart, 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 : 275-276

Notsodipus upstart , new species Figures 658–661 ; Map 74

TYPES: Female holotype and male allotype taken in pitfall traps at Cape Upstart , E of Station Hill, 198479S, 1478509E, Queensland (July 27–Nov. 25, 1992; R. Raven, P., E. Lawless, M. Shaw), deposited in QMB ( S21807 , S21818 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: This species is closely related to N. dalby and N. innot but can be distinguished by the beak­shaped tip of the retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 659) of males and the much shorter epigynal atrium (fig. 660) of females.

MALE: Total length 3.3. Abdominal dorsum with posterior chevrons visible under scutum; venter gray, with four longitudinal rows of small, circular, orange sclerites. Leg spination presumed typical for genus (leg III missing). Retrolateral tibial apophysis abruptly narrowed, beak­shaped distally (fig. 659); terminal apophysis with distally narrow median prong, distal elements relatively short, wide, heavily sclerotized retrolaterally, embolus relatively long, extending to ventral edge of bulb (fig. 658).

FEMALE: Total length 3.3. Abdominal dorsum gray, with posterior chevrons; venter with two longitudinal rows of small, circular, orange sclerites. Leg spination typical for genus. Epigynal atrium short, wide (fig. 660); spermathecae ductlike, almost touching anteriorly, with lateral ducts overlying most of their lateral ends (fig. 661).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: One female taken with the types (QMB S24861 ).

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from mid­eastern Queensland (map 74).

Figures

Map 74. Records of Notsodipus upstart, new species (circle), N. muckera, new species (squares), and N. quobba, new species (triangles).

Figs. 658–661. Notsodipus upstart, new species. 658. Left male palp, ventral view. 659. Same, retrolateral view. 660. Epigynum, ventral view. 661. Same, dorsal view.