Pseudolampona woodman, 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 : 308-309

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-B568-FEF3-C501-7131E22BFC69

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Pseudolampona woodman
status

sp. nov.

Pseudolampona woodman View in CoL , new species

Figures 754–757 View Figs ; Map 85 View Map 85

TYPES: Female holotype and male allotype taken in pitfall traps at Woodman Point , 328089S, 1158459E, Western Australia (June 28–Sept. 1, 1994; J. Waldock, A. Longbottom), deposited in WAM (96/722, 723) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the greatly elongated retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 755), females by the relatively wide epigynum (fig. 756).

MALE: Total length 2.1. Coloration as in P. warrandyte except abdominal dorsum with five dark chevrons. Retrolateral tibial apophysis greatly elongated, reaching almost to distal tip of bulb (fig. 755); median apophysis long, originating on retrolateral side of bulb (fig. 754).

FEMALE: Total length 3.1. Coloration as in male. Lateral epigynal pockets widely separated (fig. 756); spermathecae widely separated (fig. 757).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Western Australia: Hepburn Heights , 318499S, 1158469E, Nov. 28, 1995 – Jan. 29, 1996, pitfall (M. Harvey, J. Waldock, WAM 96 About WAM /728), 1 /; Trigg Dune Bush , 318539S, 1158459E, Nov. 28, 1995 – Jan. 29, 1996, pitfall (M. Harvey, J. Waldock, WAM 96 About WAM /727), 1 /; Woodman Point , 328089S, 1158459E, June 28–Sept. 1, 1994, pitfall (J. Waldock, A. Longbottom, WAM 96 About WAM /724), 1/, Sept. 1–Nov. 4, 1994 (J. Waldock, A. Longbottom, WAM 96 About WAM /1522), 1?, Nov. 4, 1994 – Jan. 19, 1995, pitfalls (J. Waldock, M. Harvey, WAM 96 About WAM /725, 726, 729–735), 6?, 3 /.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Western

Australia (map 85).

WAM

Western Australian Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Lamponidae

Genus

Pseudolampona

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