Knotodo toolinna, Raven & Hebron & Williams, 2023

Raven, Robert J., Hebron, Wendy & Williams, Kylie, 2023, Revisions of Australian ground-hunting spiders VI: five new stripe-less miturgid genera and 48 new species (Miturgidae: Miturginae), Zootaxa 5358 (1), pp. 1-117 : 90-91

Knotodo toolinna sp. nov.

Fig. 72

Diagnosis. Compared to that of all congenerics, the median apophysis ( Fig. 72a, b ) is very broad for its twisting, folded length, differing from that of K. eneabba sp. nov., whose MA narrows then widens from base to apex. Female unknown.

Type Material. Western Australia: male holotype, Toolinna Cove (site CO 3A), 32°44’S 125°01’E, Oct. 1985, N. Mackenzie, via B.Y. Main, WAM98 /876.

Paratype. 1 ma., paratype, same data, WAM98 /877.

Etymology. The species epithet is a noun in apposition from the type locality.

Description. Male, holotype WAM98/876

Carapace 8.00 long, 6.00 wide. Opisthosoma 8.67 long, 4.17 wide. Total length, 17.

I: 9.17; 3.17; 9.00; 10.00; 5.50; 36.83. II: 8.33; 3.17; 9.17; 10.00; 5.50; 36.17. III: 10.83; 3.17; 9.17; 12.17; 5.67; 41.00. IV: 11.50; 3.17; 10.83; 15.17; 6.33; 47.00. Palp: 3.33; 1.67; 1.17; -; 2.71; 9.50.

Carapace orange brown with dark scallops in posterior striae and one along caput edge; uniform cover of white hairs in bushy bands behind eyes.

Eyes. Group 41 wide in front, 50 in back, 30 long. MOQ 23 wide in front and in back, 18 long. Back of PME on line of front of PLE.

Palp. RTA: dorsal lobe very short, darkly sclerotised, slender pointed keel; ventral lobe trianguloid with distal cone directed distally. No spines or scopula on dorsal cymbium but apical cluster of bristles; cymbium with broad but shallow basal groove extending to opposite base of median apophysis. Embolus distally directed in line with median apophysis, reniform, tapering shortly to basal bulb and reflexed distally. MA folded, leaf-like, with basal prolateral spine.

Distribution. Known only from Toolinna Cove, south-western Western Australia.

Figures

FIGURE 72. Knotodo toolinna sp. nov., male holotype, WAM 98/876: a–c, palpal bulb, cymbium and tibia: a, ventral view; b, retrolateral view; c, dorsal view; d, habitus, dorsal view; e, lateral view; f, eyes, dorsal view.