Trachyspina goongarrie, 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

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scientific name

Trachyspina goongarrie
status

sp. nov.

Trachyspina goongarrie , new species Figures 201, 202 View Figs ; Map 25 View Map 25

TYPE: Female holotype taken in dry pitfall trap at Goongarrie Station , 30 ° 01 ̍ S, 121 ° 02 ̍ E, Western Australia (May 1–5, 1996; P. West), deposited in WAM (99/591) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Females have a heart­shaped epigynal atrium (fig. 201) and large extensions on the anterior epigynal ducts that extend anterior of the atrial margin (fig. 202).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE: Total length 6.0. Coloration as in T. mundaring . Leg spination: femora: I d0­ 0­1, p0­0­1; II d0­0­1; IV d1­0­1; tibiae: I v2­4­2; II v2­4­0; III, IV v1p­1p­0; metatarsi: II v2­2­2; III v1p­0­0; IV 2­1p­0. Epigynal atrium wider anteriorly than posteriorly, with triangular septum (fig. 201); ducts enlarged

anteriorly, extending anterior of anterior atrial margin (fig. 202).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality in south­central Western Australia (map 25).

Trachyspina madura , new species

Figures 327, 328 View Figs ; Map 25 View Map 25

TYPE: Female holotype taken under rock at Madura Pass , 31 ° 55 ̍ S, 127 ° 00 ̍ E, Western Australia (Sept. 7, 1985; M. Harvey, T. Doeg), deposited in WAM (99/592) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Females have the smallest epigynal atrium of any species in the genus (fig. 327), and enlarged anterior ducts that do not extend anterior of the atrial margin (fig. 328).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE: Total length 7.7. Coloration as in T. mundaring . Leg spination: femora: I d0­ 0­1, p0­0­1; II d0­0­1; IV d1­0­1; tibiae: I v2­4­1p; II v1p­4­0; III, IV v1p­1p­0; metatarsi: II v2­2­2; III, IV v1p­1p­0. Epigynal atrium tiny, situated anteriorly (fig. 327); anterior ducts greatly widened but not extending anterior of anterior atrial margin (fig. 328).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Western Australia: Madura Pass, 1 km W Madura, 31 ° 55 ̍ S, 127 ° 00 ̍ E, Sept. 7, 1983, limestone rocks in gully (E. Schlinger, M. Irwin, CAS), 1♀.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality in the Nullarbor Plain of Western Australia (map 25).

WAM

Western Australian Museum

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