Longepi durin, 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 : 302

Longepi durin , new species

Figures 676, 677 ; Map 83

TYPE: Male holotype from Durokoppin Nature Reserve , 318309S, 1178449E, Western Australia (Nov. 3–14, 1989; D. Mitchell), deposited in WAM (96/718) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition, formed by contraction from the type locality, in honor of W. D. Platnick.

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the small, obliquely oriented, and distally hooked retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 677). Discovery of the female could show that this enigmatic species is misplaced in Longepi ; it could conceivably represent the sister group of the known Prionosternum species instead.

MALE: Total length 4.1. Abdominal venter gray, with two longitudinal paramedian rows of small, orange, circular sclerites. Leg spination: tibia IV r0­0­0; metatarsus IV v1p­0­ o0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis relatively small, obliquely oriented, hooked at tip (fig. 677); terminal apophysis moderately enlarged, covering prodistal quarter of bulb area (fig. 676).

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Western Australia (map 83).

Figures

Map 83. Records of Longepi canungra, new species (circle) and L. durin, new species (square).

Figs. 674–677. 674, 675. Notsodipus broadwater, new species. 676, 677. Longepi durin, new species. 674, 676. Left male palp, ventral view. 675, 677. Same, retrolateral view.