Boolathana spiralis, PLATNICK, 2002

PLATNICK, NORMAN I., 2002, A Revision Of The Australasian Ground Spiders Of The Families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, And Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2002 (271), pp. 1-1 : 1-

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2002)271<0001:AROTAG>2.0.CO;2
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EAE52A-FF65-A69E-8023-2344DACB4CBB
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Boolathana spiralis
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Boolathana spiralis , new species Figures 533–536 View Figs ; Map 41 View Map 41

TYPE: Male holotype taken in dry pitfall trap at Boolathana Station , 24 ° 25 ̍ S, 113 ° 42 ̍ E, Western Australia (Sept. 27–Oct. 2, 1994; A. Sampey), deposited in WAM (99/528) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name refers to the coiled tip of the median apophysis.

DIAGNOSIS: Males have the recurved tip of the palpal conductor reaching the distal spiral of the median apophysis (fig. 533); females have a larger median epigynal septum (fig. 535) and subequally wide epigynal duct coils (fig. 536).

MALE: Total length 14. Carapace dark reddish brown, darkened anteriorly; abdominal dorsum and sides dark gray, venter pale gray; legs brown, metatarsi darkest. Leg spination typical for genus. Retrolateral tibial apophysis short, bipartite (fig. 534); tip of median apophysis forming complete coil, tip of conductor with deep subdistal excavation and recurved tip reaching coil of median apophysis (fig. 533).

FEMALE: Total length 10. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: femora: III r010; IV r000; tibiae: I, II v1p1p2; IV r011; metatarsi: III p001; IV p001, v21p2, r1 00. Epigynum with median septum much wider posteriorly than anteriorly (fig. 535), epigynal ducts making five coils (fig. 536).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Western Australia: Boolathana Station , 24 ° 25 ̍ S, 113 ° 42 ̍ E, Aug. 20–Sept. 30, 1994, pitfall (A. Sampey, WAM 99 About WAM /529), 13 ; Boolathana Station , 24 ° 25 ̍ S, 113 ° 45 ̍ E, Aug. 20–Sept. 30, 1994, pitfall (A. Sampey, WAM 99 About WAM /530), 13 ; Bush Bay , 25 ° 07 ̍ S, 113 ° 44 ̍ E, Sept. 27– Oct. 2, 1994, dry pitfall (M. Harvey, WAM 99 About WAM /531), 13 ; Durokoppin Nature Reserve , 31 ° 30 ̍ S, 117 ° 44 ̍ E, Nov. 3–14, 1988 (D. Mitchell, WAM 99 About WAM /541), 13 ; Edel Land , 26 ° 04 ̍ S, 113 ° 23 ̍ E, Sept. 15–20, 1989 (G. Harold, WAM 99 About WAM /534), 13 ; Edel Land , 26 ° 17 ̍ S, 113 ° 30 ̍ E, Sept. 9–14, 1989 (G. Harold, WAM 99 About WAM /533), 13 ; Kennedy Range National Park , 24 ° 30 ̍ S, 115 ° 02 ̍ E, Aug. 18– Oct. 6, 1994, pitfall (M. Harvey, WAM 99 About WAM / 532), 13 ; Leeman , 29 ° 57 ̍ S, 114 ° 58 ̍ E, Aug. 30, 1982, yellow sand, heath (R. McMillan, WAM 99 About WAM /542), 1♀ ; R.G.C. Mine, 10 km S Eneabba , 29 ° 56 ̍ S, 115 ° 17 ̍ E, Oct. 30–31, 1997, pitfalls (R. McMillan, WAM 99 About WAM /535– 540), 63 .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Western Australia (map 41).

Boolathana mainae , new species

Figures 537–540 View Figs ; Map 42 View Map 42

TYPE: Male holotype taken in pitfall trap at Fitzgerald River National Park, near Twertup Field Study Centre , 34 ° 01 ̍ S, 119 ° 22 ̍ E, Western Australia (Nov. 1996; A. Saunders), deposited in WAM (99/543) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of Dr. Barbara Main, who collected the single female here assigned to the species.

DIAGNOSIS: Males have the recurved tip of the palpal conductor not reaching the distal spiral of the median apophysis (fig. 537); females have a smaller median epigynal septum (fig. 539) and greatly widened anterior epigynal duct coils (fig. 540).

MALE: Total length 13. Coloration as in B. spiralis . Leg spination: femora: III r010; IV r000; tibiae I, II v1p1p2; metatarsi: III p0 01; IV p001, r010. Ventral prong of retrolateral tibial apophysis relatively wide (fig. 538); recurved tip of palpal conductor not reaching to distal spiral of median apophysis (fig. 537).

FEMALE: Total length 14. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: femur IV r000; tibia I v1p22; metatarsi: III p001; IV p001, r1 11. Epigynum deeply depressed on both sides of median septum (fig. 539); anterior duct coil much wider than more posterior coils (fig. 540).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Western Australia: Francois Peron National Park , 25 ° 53 ̍ S, 113 ° 33 ̍ E, Oct. 9–14, 1994, dry pitfall (A. Sampey, WAM 99 About WAM /551), 13 ; Fitzgerald River National Park, 6 km WNW Annie Peak, Eyre Range , 33 ° 51 ̍ S, 119 ° 55 ̍ E, Nov. 1996, pitfall (A. Sanders, WAM 99 About WAM / 544), 13 ; Fitzgerald River National Park, 2.1 km WNW Twertup Field Study Centre , 34 ° 01 ̍ S, 119 ° 21 ̍ E, Nov. 1996, pitfall (A. Saunders, WAM 99 About WAM /545–547), 33 ; S Hamelin Station on Coburn Track , 26 ° 26 ̍ S, 114 ° 11 ̍ E, Nov. 4, 1991 (K. Aplin, WAM 93 About WAM / 224), 13 ; Kwelkan , 31 ° 08 ̍ S, 118 ° 00 ̍ E, Sept. 7–Nov. 30, 1999, pitfall (J. Waldock, I. Studley, WAM 99 About WAM /549), 13 ; 3 mi SW Lake Cronin , 32 ° 23 ̍ S, 119 ° 45 ̍ E, May 16, 1967, silklined burrow against butt of shrub ( WAM 99 About WAM / 548), 1♀ ; Nanga Station , 26 ° 33 ̍ S, 113 ° 58 ̍ E, Oct. 15–20, 1994, dry pitfall (P. West, WAM 99 About WAM /552), 13 ; Nanga Station , 26 ° 36 ̍ S, 113 ° 53 ̍ E, Aug. 23–Oct. 16, 1994, pitfall (P. West, WAM 99 About WAM /553), 13 ; Nerren Nerren Station , 27 ° 03 ̍ S, 114 ° 34 ̍ E, Oct. 16, 1994 – Jan. 11, 1995, pitfall (N. McKenzie, J. Rolfe, WAM 99 About WAM /550), 13 ; Zuytdorp, 27 ° 15 ̍ S, 114 ° 12 ̍ E, Aug. 26–Oct. 16, 1994, pitfalls (A. Sampey, WAM 99 About WAM /565, 566), 23, Oct. 14– 19, 1994, dry pitfalls (A. Sampey , WAM 99 About WAM / 555, 556), 23, Oct. 16, 1994 – Jan. 10, 1995, pitfall (N. McKenzie, J. Rolfe, WAM 99 About WAM / 557), 13 ; Zuytdorp , 27 ° 16 ̍ S, 114 ° 01 ̍ E, Aug. 26–Oct. 15, 1994, pitfalls (A. Sampey, WAM 99 About WAM /558–560), 33, Oct. 14–19, 1994, dry pitfall (A. Sampey, WAM 99 About WAM /554), 13 ; Zuytdorp , 27 ° 16 ̍ S, 114 ° 02 ̍ E, Aug. 26–Oct. 15, 1994, pitfalls (A. Sampey, WAM 99 About WAM /561– 563), 33 ; Zuytdorp , 27 ° 16 ̍ S, 114 ° 09 ̍ E, Aug. 26–Oct. 16, 1994, pitfall (A. Sampey, WAM 99 About WAM /564), 13 .