Borrala webbi, Gray & Smith, 2004

Gray, M. R. & Smith, H. M., 2004, The “ Striped ” Group of Stiphidiid Spiders: Two New Genera from Northeastern New South Wales, Australia (Araneae: Stiphidiidae: Amaurobioidea), Records of the Australian Museum 56 (1), pp. 123-138 : 123-138

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3853/j.0067-1975.56.2004.1394

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5231725

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC3215-FFDF-A964-1A59-F9F3FA430CB9

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Borrala webbi
status

sp. nov.

Borrala webbi View in CoL n.sp.

Figs. 7a,b View Fig , 8a View Fig

Etymology. The species is namedfor of the collector of the types, G.A. Webb.

Types. Australia, New South Wales. HOLOTYPE Ƌ KS43507, Mt Boss SF (Fenwicks), 31°12'S 152°24'E, Oct 1980, G.A. Webb, Forestry Commission GoogleMaps . PARATYPES ƋƋ KS72861 & KS72862, data as holotype; Ƌ KS44143, Werrikimbe NP, North Plateau , 31°15'S 152°14'E, 28 Dec 1993, D. Bickel, beech forest GoogleMaps .

Other material. Australia: New South Wales. Ƌ KS17667, Mt Boss SF (Thumb), 31°12'S 152°24'E, Oct 1980, G.A. Webb, Forestry Commission GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. Distinguished from all other members of the genus by the simple, beak-like distal conductor.

Male (holotype). BL 6.33, CL 3.10 (2.37–3.10), CW 2.29, CapW 1.31, EGW 0.86, LL 0.49, LW 0.47, SL 1.49, SW 1.33. Legs: 423 (I: not available; II: 13.42; III: 11.42; IV: 13.50). Male Palp: ( Fig. 7a,b View Fig ). Patella only slightly longer than wide. RTA tapering rapidly from broad base to spinelike apex. RVTA with a retroapical tubercle. Sperm duct relatively thinner and more sinuously S-looped on tegulum. Conductor weakly T-shaped, beak-like distally, with a deep embolic groove along apical margin. Embolus relatively narrow basally and of only moderate thickness, not flattened distally. Tegular window small.

Female. Not known.

Distribution. Northern Hastings River catchment, eastern Great Dividing Range, mid-northeastern New South Wales.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Stiphidiidae

Genus

Borrala

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