Asadipus cape, 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 : 261

Asadipus cape , new species

Figures 618–621 ; Map 67

TYPE: Female holotype from Cape Range area , 218599S, 1138599E, Western Australia (June–Sept. 1989; W. Humphreys), deposited in WAM (96/663) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males of this distinctive species can easily be recognized by the relatively small palpal bulb (fig. 618), females by the massively inflated posterior epigynal ducts (fig. 621).

MALE: Total length 5.7. 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. 619); ventral portion of terminal apophysis narrow, dorsal portion folded (fig. 618).

FEMALE: Total length 7.0. Coloration as in A. phaleratus , except medial portion of abdominal dorsum paler than sides. Leg spination: tibiae III, IV p0­0­0, v1p­1p­2, r0­0­ 0; metatarsi: III v1p­0­0; IV 2­0­0. Epigynum elongated, anterior portion rectangular (fig. 620); spermathecal and posterior epigynal ducts inflated (fig. 621).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Western Australia: Cape Range, near Cape Range No. 2 Well, 228069S, 1148009E, May 1965 (W. Kendrick, G. Hitchin, WAM 96/662), 1?.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the Cape Range, Western Australia (map 67).

Figures

Map 67. Records of Graycassis barrington, new species (circles), Asadipus cape, new species (squares), and A. yundamindra, new species (triangles).

Figs. 618–621. Asadipus cape, new species. 618. Left male palp, ventral view. 619. Same, retrolateral view. 620. Epigynum, ventral view. 621. Same, dorsal view.