Asadipus baranar, 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 : 262

Asadipus baranar , new species

Figures 622–625 ; Map 68

TYPE: Female holotype taken in dry pitfall trap in Barlee Range Nature Reserve , 238239S, 1158539E, Western Australia (June 11–14, 1994; P., G. Kendrick), deposited in WAM (96/665) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is an arbitrary combination of letters.

DIAGNOSIS: Males of this distinctive species can easily be recognized by the greatly enlarged dorsal prong of the terminal apophysis (fig. 622), females by the inverted heartshaped epigynal atrium (fig. 623) and enlarged anterior epigynal ducts (fig. 624).

MALE: Total length 4.0. Coloration as in A. phaleratus . Leg spination: tibiae: III p0­ 0­0, v0­0­0, r0­0­0; IV p0­0­0, v1p­1p­1p, r0­0­0; metatarsi: III v0­0­0; IV v0­1p­0. Palpal femur shortened, thickened distally, with small, rounded knob at about two­thirds of length of retrolateral surface; retrolateral tibial apophysis reaching to about half of cymbial length (fig. 623); dorsal portion of terminal apophysis greatly enlarged, forming ushaped functional conductor (fig. 622).

FEMALE: Total length 7.1. Coloration as in A. phaleratus . Leg spination: tibiae: III p0­ 0­0, v0­0­1p, r0­0­0; IV p0­0­0, v1p­1p­2, r0­0­0; metatarsi: III v0­0­0; IV v0­1p­0. Epigynum with almost completely unsclerotized, inverted heart­shaped anterior atrium (fig. 624); anterior epigynal ducts enlarged (fig. 625).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Western Australia: Barlee Range Nature Reserve , 238039S, 1158499E, Aug. 1993, pitfall (S. van Leeuwen, B. Bromilow, WAM 96 /666), 1 ?; Barlee Range Nature Reserve , 238059S, 1158479E, June 15–18, 1994, dry pitfall (P., G. Kendrick, WAM 96 /1564), 1 ?; Barlee Range Nature Reserve , 238259S, 1158549E, Aug. 1993, pitfall (S. van Leeuwen, B. Bromilow, WAM 96 /664), 1 ?.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the Barlee Range Nature Reserve, Western Australia (map 68).

Figures

Map 68. Records of Graycassis enfield, new species (squares), Asadipus baranar, new species (circles), and A. areyonga, new species (triangles).

Figs. 622–625. Asadipus baranar, new species. 622. Left male palp, ventral view. 623. Same, retrolateral view. 624. Epigynum, ventral view. 625. Same, dorsal view.