Pseudolampona glenmore, 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 : 315-316

Pseudolampona glenmore , new species Figures 784–787 ; Map 89

TYPES: Male holotype and female allotype taken in open forest pitfalls at Glenmore,

238209S, 1508309E, Queensland (Mar. 21– Sept. 3, 1991; D. Wallace, R. Raven), deposited in QMB (S34320) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the enlarged tip of the median apophysis (fig. 784), females by the anteriorly advanced lateral epigynal margins (fig. 786).

MALE: Total length 2.0. Abdominal dorsum with five narrow dark chevrons, venter with dark markings only around spinnerets. Retrolateral tibial apophysis long, narrow (fig. 785); median apophysis greatly expand­ ed distally (fig. 784).

FEMALE: Total length 2.4. Coloration as in male. Epigynum with anteriorly advanced lateral margins outlining triangular atrium (fig. 786), spermathecae bean­shaped (fig. 787).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: Glenmore , 238209S, 1508309E, Mar. 21–Sept. 3, 1990, open forest pitfall (D. Wallace, R. Raven, QMB S32527 ), 1 ?; Kabra , 238289S, 1508249E, July 19–Oct. 22, 1990, open forest pitfall (D. Wallace, R. Raven, K. Williams, QMB S26321 ), 1?, 1/, Mar. 21–Sept. 3 ,

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1991, open forest pitfall (D. Wallace, R. Raven, K. Williams, QMB S32390 , 32533 ), 2 ?; Mount Archer , 238209S, 1508359E, July 18–Oct. 22, 1990, open forest pitfall (D.

Wallace, R. Raven, K. Williams, QMB S19596 ), 1?.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from mid­eastern Queensland (map 89).

Figures

Map 89. Records of Pseudolampona wyandotte, new species (circle) and P. glenmore, new species (squares).

Figs. 784–787. Pseudolampona glenmore, new species. 784. Left male palp, ventral view. 785. Same, retrolateral view. 786. Epigynum, ventral view. 787. Same, dorsal view.