Asadipus mountant, 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 : 263

Asadipus mountant , new species

Figures 580, 581 ; Map 69

TYPE: Female holotype from Mount Ant , 248469S, 1288459E, Western Australia (July 11, 1969; D. Giuliani), deposited in WAM (90/336) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Females of this species can easily be recognized by the oblique anterolateral epigynal margins (fig. 580).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE: Total length 5.7. Abdominal dorsum gray with posterior chevrons and oblique lines composed of small pale patches. Leg spination: tibiae: III p0­0­0, v0­0­1p, r0­0­0; IV p0­0­0, v1p­2­1p; metatarsi: III v0­0­0; IV v2­0­0. Epigynum with transverse anterior and oblique anterolateral margins (fig. 580); median ducts enlarged, translucent (fig. 581).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Mount Ant, Western Australia (map 69).

Figures

Map 69. Records of Graycassis boss, new species (circles), Asadipus barant, new species (square), and A. mountant, new species (triangle).

Figs. 578–581. 578, 579. Graycassis scrub, new species. 580, 581. Asadipus mountant, new species. 578. Left male palp, ventral view. 579. Same, retrolateral view. 580. Epigynum, ventral view. 581. Same, dorsal view.