Karaops jenniferae Crews & Harvey, 2011

Crews, Sarah C., 2023, But wait, there's more! Descriptions of new species and undescribed sexes of flattie spiders (Araneae, Selenopidae, Karaops) from Australia, ZooKeys 1150, pp. 1-189 : 1

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scientific name

Karaops jenniferae Crews & Harvey, 2011
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Karaops jenniferae Crews & Harvey, 2011 View in CoL

Figs 27D View Figure 27 28D, F, G, Maps 1 View Map 1 , 7 View Map 7

Karaops jenniferae Crews & Harvey, 2011: 80, figs 77, 78 (♀, examined).

New records.

Western Australia • 2 imm.; Devonian Reef Conservation Park, Oscar Range; 17°38.15.73"S, 125°10'3.31"E; 25 May 2016; S. Crews, J. DeJong leg.; under large limestone rocks; sel_1274-1275; SCC16_056; (WAM T155650-T155651).

Diagnosis.

This species can be differentiated from other members of the group by the genitalia. The accessory bulbs are conspicuously anterior to the atrium in this species than they are in any of the others in the Kimberley group (Fig. 28F, G View Figure 28 ).

Description.

The description of the female can be found in Crews and Harvey (2011).

Male. Unknown.

Distribution.

Known from only the type locality, Oscar Range, Western Australia (Map 7 View Map 7 ).

Natural history.

The Oscar Range (Fig. 27D View Figure 27 ) is located in the Mount Eliza subregion of the Central Kimberley bioregion. The climate is dry, hot tropical to sub-humid to semi-arid. The area is craggy with savannah woodland and vine thickets ( Graham 2001e). The spiders were found under large rocks in an area shaded by a large rock formation. The immature specimens were collected in a cooler month with little rain, and the adult female was collected in a cooler month with very little rain (Suppl. material 2: tables S1, S9).

Discussion.

Karaops jenniferae (Fig. 28D View Figure 28 ) is part of a recent, sizeable radiation in the Kimberley, including the offshore islands. Because of its similarity to other species nearby, new illustrations are provided for ease of comparison (Fig. 28F, G View Figure 28 ). The male remains unknown. The two immatures were assigned to this species because they were collected in the same locality as the type, and molecular data also recover them with the type (Suppl. material 1).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Selenopidae

Genus

Karaops

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Karaops jenniferae Crews & Harvey, 2011

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Karaops jenniferae

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