Asadipus longforest, 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 : 265-266

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2000)245<0001:ARAROT>2.0.CO;2

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B887CE-B553-FECE-C5DE-7150E206F9BA

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Asadipus longforest
status

sp. nov.

Asadipus longforest View in CoL , new species

Figures 634–637 View Figs ; Map 65 View Map 65

TYPES: Female holotype and male allotype taken in pitfall traps in bull mallee and grey box woodland at Longforest , 368399S, 1448309E, Victoria (Mar. 13–19, 1992; B. Van Praagh, P. Lillywhite), deposited in NMVS .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the arched dorsal prong of the terminal apophysis (fig. 634), females by the anterior epigynal ducts making a full circle (fig. 637).

MALE: Total length 4.3. Coloration as in A. phaleratus . Leg spination: tibiae: III p0­ 0­0, v0­0­1p, r0­0­0; IV p0­0­0, v1p­1p­2, r0­0­0; metatarsi: III v0­0­0; IV v1p­0­0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis reaching to about half of cymbial length (fig. 635); ventral prong of terminal apophysis relatively narrow, dorsal prong arched, distally twisted (fig. 634).

FEMALE: Total length 5.4. Coloration as in A. phaleratus . Leg spination: tibiae: III p0­ 0­0, v1p­0­2, r0­0­0; IV p0­0­0, v1p­1p­2, r0­0­0; metatarsi: III v0­0­0; IV v1p­0­0. Anterior epigynal ducts forming full circle around epigynal openings (fig. 636); spermathecae situated medially, semicircular (fig. 637).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: South Australia: 4 km N Bucks Camp, Mount Rescue Conservation Park , 358569S, 1408189E, Mar. 18, 1992, vibration (D. Hirst, SAM N1997 View Materials / 93), 1 /; 0.1 km N Grainger Lagoon, Kan­ garoo Island , 358549S, 1368539E, Mar. 9–15, 1995, pitfall (T. Herbert, SAM N1996 View Materials /427), 1 ?; Pinkawillinie Conservation Park, 328079S, 1368009E, May 21, 1990, pitfall (D. Hirst, SAM N1997 View Materials /94), 1?. Tasmania: Queens Domain , 428529S, 1478199E, Aug.– Sept. 1942, in cranberry bushes (V. Hickman, AMS KS29241 ), 1?, 1 /; Trevallyn , 418279S, 1478109E, Mar. 17, 1928, under stone (V. Hickman, AMS KS29289 ), 1 /; Waterhouse Point , 408519S, 1478389E, Apr. 1987, coastal heath (T. Churchill, QVM 13 View Materials : 1981), 1?. Victoria: 7 km ENE Kingower, 368359S, 1438509E, Mar. 26–29, 1990, mallee (A. Coventry, NMV K4651 View Materials ), 1 ?; Longforest , 368399S, 1448309E, Mar. 13–19, 1992, pitfalls, bull mallee, grey box woodland (B. Van Praagh, P. Lillywhite, NMVS), 2?, 1 /.

DISTRIBUTION: South Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania (map 65).

SAM

South African Museum

NMV

Museum Victoria

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Lamponidae

Genus

Asadipus

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