Desognaphosa carbine, 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-

Desognaphosa carbine , new species Figures 267–270 ; Map 15

TYPE: Female holotype from Windsor Tableland , 35 km NNW of Mount Carbine, 16 ° 12 ̍ S, 145 ° 05 ̍ E, Queensland (Apr. 15–18, 1982; G. Monteith, D. Yeates, D. Cook), deposited in QMB ( S26667 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males of this large species can be recognized by the wide, heavily sclerotized terminal elements of the palpal bulb (fig. 267), females by the wide, heavily sclerotized median epigynal ducts (fig. 269).

MALE: Total length 8.1. Coloration as in D. malbon . Leg spination: tibiae: III v2­2­2; IV v2­2­2, r0­1­1; metatarsi: III v2­0­2; IV v2­2­2, r0­1­0. Retrolateral tibial apophysis with subequal ventral and dorsal lobes, paracymbial apophysis long, medially bent (fig. 268); embolus short, twisted terminal elements of bulb wide, very heavily sclerotized (fig. 267).

FEMALE: Total length 8.7. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: tibiae: III v2­2­2; IV v2­2­2, r0­1­1; metatarsi: III v2­0­2; IV v2­ 2­2, r0­1­0. Epigynal atrium short, with semicircular lateral margins (fig. 269); median ducts distinctively widened, in v­shaped conformation (fig. 270).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: Bargoo Creek, Windsor Tableland, 35 km NNW Mount Carbine, 16 ° 14 ̍ S, 145 ° 08 ̍ E, Apr , 18, 1982, Berlese, sieved rainforest litter, elev. 850 m (G. Monteith, D. Yeates, D. Cook, QMB S26705 ), 13 ; 1 km WNW Cape Tribulation , 16 ° 04 ̍ S, 145 ° 28 ̍ E, May 31– June 28, 1996, pitfall, elev. 10 m (P. Zborowski, QMB), 13 ; 2 km WSW Cape Tribulation , 16 ° 05 ̍ S, 145 ° 27 ̍ E, Mar. 27–May 1, 1996, intercept trap, elev. 30 m (P. Zborowski, QMB), 13 ; 40 km N Daintree, Cape Tribulation , ca. 15 ° 50 ̍ S, 145 ° 20 ̍ E, July 12, 1982, rainforest litter, elev. 10 m (S., J. Peck, AMNH), 1♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the Cape Tribulation area of northeastern Queensland (map 15).

Figures

Map 15. Records of Desognaphosa bulburin, new species (circle), D. tyson, new species (square), and D. carbine, new species (diamonds).

Figs. 267–270. Desognaphosa carbine, new species. 267. Left male palp, ventral view. 268. Same, retrolateral view. 269. Epigynum, ventral view. 270. Same, dorsal view.