Asadipus bucks, 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 : 266-267

Asadipus bucks , new species

Figures 638–641 ; Map 64

TYPE: Female holotype taken by vibration at a site between Bucks Camp Well and Rabbit Island, Mount Rescue Conservation Park, 358569S, 1408199E, South Australia (Mar. 18, 1992; D. Hirst), deposited in SAM ( N1997 / 95) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males and females have not been collected together but are paired on the basis of their respective similarities to those of A. humptydoo and A. julia , which share a relatively unexpanded male palpal bulb and short retrolateral tibial apophysis, and on the shared presence of unusually long leg spines; males can be distinguished by the relatively short embolus (fig. 638), females by the relatively short epigynal ducts (fig. 640).

MALE: Total length 4.1. Coloration as in A. phaleratus . Leg spination: tibiae: III p0­ 0­0, v1p­1p­2, r0­0­0; IV p0­0­0, v1p­1p­2, r0­0­1; metatarsi: III v1p­0­0; IV v2­1p­0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis reaching to about one­fourth of cymbial length (fig. 639); ventral prong of terminal apophysis relatively short, dorsal prong basally widened, long (fig. 638).

FEMALE: Total length 5.1. Coloration as in A. phaleratus . Leg spination: tibiae: III p0­ 0­0, v1p­1p­2, r0­0­0; IV p0­0­0, v1p­2­2, r0­0­1; metatarsi: III v1p­0­0; IV v2­0­0. Epigynal openings situated at about half length of epigynum (fig. 640); ducts enlarged anteriorly (fig. 641).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Victoria: 12.3 km SSW Murrayville Post Office, 358229S, 1418099E, Feb. 1986, drift fence pitfall (A. Yen, NMVS), 1?.

DISTRIBUTION: Eastern South Australia and western Victoria (map 64).

Figures

Map 64. Records of Graycassis dorrigo, new species (squares), Asadipus woodleigh, new species (circles), and A. bucks, new species (triangles).

Figs. 638–641. Asadipus bucks, new species. 638. Left male palp, ventral view. 639. Same, retrolateral view. 640. Epigynum, ventral view. 641. Same, dorsal view.