Miturgopelma maningrida, 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 : 52-53

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5358.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1A17A242-2E91-4F43-9E5D-063F8C0CBE72
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10169188
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7A20879E-573A-FFC8-7DD4-F9AB3D20725F
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Miturgopelma maningrida
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Miturgopelma maningrida sp. nov.

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Diagnosis. Males most closely resemble those of Miturgopelma rar sp. nov. in the overall shape of the palpal bulb, from which it differs in the lobular (vs trianguloid) form of RTA viewed ventrally, and in the small/normal sized AME. Female unknown.

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

Type Material. Northern Territory: male holotype, Maningrida airstrip, 12.0552° S, 134.2314° E, Maningrida CEC, MAGNT A004620 About MAGNT GoogleMaps .

Description. Male, holotype MAGNT A004620

Carapace 5.75 long, 4.60 wide. Opisthosoma 6.60 long, 3.40 wide. Total, 12.6.

I: 6.40, 2.25, 6.00, 6.10, 4.25, 25.00. II: 6.15, 2.30, 5.30, 5.80, 3.80, 23.35. III: 6.25, 2.30, 5.00, 6.70, 4.10, 24.35. IV: 8.10, 2.20, 6.10, 5.10, -, --. Palp: 4.41, 2.16, 1.96, -, 4.41, 12.94.

Colour: Carapace pattern: dark bands along caput edge, dark scallops laterally on carapace; opisthosoma, dorsally pallid with 3–4 pair dark crescents medially. Eyes: AME clearly but only slightly bigger than PME.

Palp: Tibia clearly smaller and shorter than patella; cymbium entire dorsal surface with hairs uniformly interspersed with distinctly thicker spine-like setae; retrobasally with unmodified, narrow edge; Embolus fused to basal median apophysis; base smooth; origin distal at 10 o’clock; embolus central, directed transversely prolateral. Median apophysis longer than wide with long, wide unsclerotised zone almost to small spiniform tip.

Distribution. Known only from Maningrida, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.