Nomindra, Platnick & Baehr, 2006

Platnick, N. I. & Baehr, B., 2006, A Revision Of The Australasian Ground Spiders Of The Family Prodidomidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2006 (298), pp. 1-287 : 200-202

KEY TO SPECIES OF NOMINDRA

Males (those of N. indulkana , N. ormiston unknown).................... 2 Females (those of N. fisheri unknown)........................ 15 Terminal apophysis absent (fig. 482)

..................... 3 Terminal apophysis present (fig. 527)

..................... 5 Median apophysis present, thin, needleshaped (fig. 482)....... N. kinchega Median apophysis absent (fig. 537)... 4 Retrolateral tibial apophysis long, narrow (fig. 538)............ N. cooma Retrolateral tibial apophysis short, triangular (fig. 488)...... N. woodstock Median apophysis reduced to tiny hook or plaque, or absent (fig. 527)...... 6 Median apophysis at least as long as wide, hook- or needle-shaped (fig. 542)

........................... 8 Terminal apophysis base broad, triangular (fig. 527)............ N. fisheri Terminal apophysis base narrow, conical (fig. 522)..................... 7

7. Conductor with two tips, terminal apophysis long, semicircular (fig. 522).................. N. berrimah

– Conductor with one tip, terminal apophysis much shorter (fig. 512).. N. thatch

8. Embolus extremely long, thin, with curled tip (fig. 542)........ N. barlee

– Embolus shorter, semicircular (fig. 517). ......................... 9

9. Terminal apophysis extremely long, thin, at least 6 times longer than wide (fig. 517).............. N. gregory

– Terminal apophysis shorter, about 3 or fewer times longer than wide (fig. 497) .......................... 10

10. Retrolateral tibial apophysis fingershaped, with basal ridge (fig. 498)... 11

– Retrolateral tibial apophysis not fingershaped, without basal ridge (fig. 503) .......................... 12

11. Conductor with bifid tip, retrolateral tibial apophysis straight (figs. 497, 498)................ N. leeuweni

– Conductor with tip not bifid, retrolateral tibial apophysis distally with bent tip (figs. 502, 503).......... N. flavipes

12. Retrolateral tibial apophysis rectangular, with recurved tip; palp with additional median apophysis (fig. 508)............... N. yeni

– Retrolateral tibial apophysis triangular or conical; palp without additional median apophysis (fig. 549)....... 13

13. Median apophysis long, about twice as long as wide; retrolateral tibial apophysis large, conical (figs. 549, 550)...................... N. cocklebiddy

– Median apophysis relatively short, about as long as wide; retrolateral tibial apophysis smaller, triangular (figs. 532, 533)....................... 14

14. Retrolateral tibial apophysis straight; terminal apophysis triangular (figs. 532, 533)................ N. jarrnarm

– Retrolateral tibial apophysis bent ventrally; terminal apophysis needle-shaped (figs. 492, 493)......... N. arenaria

15. Copulatory opening present, tiny, median, nearly circular (fig. 551)...................... N. cocklebiddy

– Copulatory opening not apparent (fig. 519)....................... 16

16. Atrium present (fig. 519)........ 17

– Atrium absent (fig. 539)......... 24

17. Atrium broadly oval or triangular, at least twice as wide as long (fig. 519).. .......................... 18

– Atrium about as wide as long (fig. 544) .......................... 22

18. Atrium triangular, epigynal hood wide (fig. 519).............. N. gregory

– Atrium broadly oval, epigynal hood narrow (fig. 534).............. 19

19. Anterior margin of atrium sinuous (fig. 534)............. N. jarrnarm

– Anterior margin of atrium broadly rounded (fig. 529)............. 20

20. Epigynal ducts long, thin, coiled around spermathecae (fig. 530)... N. ormiston

– Epigynal ducts not coiled (fig. 547)... .......................... 21

21. Epigynal ducts short, slightly x-shaped, not separating spermathecae (fig. 547).................. N. indulkana

– Epigynal ducts long, parallel, separating spermathecae (fig. 510)...... N. yeni

22. Atrium pentagonal, epigynal ducts extremely long, coiled (figs. 544, 545)..................... N. barlee

– Atrium not pentagonal, epigynal ducts shorter (figs. 524, 525).......... 23

23. Epigynal hood narrow; epigynal ducts along midline, x-shaped (figs. 524, 525)................ N. berrimah

– Epigynal hood wide; epigynal ducts short, coiled (figs. 484, 485)........................... N. kinchega

24. Epigynal ducts long, thin, laterally advanced; anterior epigynal margin widely arched (figs. 539, 540)..... N. cooma

– Epigynal ducts short, not laterally advanced; anterior epigynal margin not widely arched (figs. 499, 500)..... 25

25. Epigynal hood beak-shaped (fig. 499).................... N. leeuweni

– Epigynal hood tripartite or absent (fig. 504).................... 26

26. Epigynal hood tripartite (fig. 504)........................ N. flavipes

– Epigynal hood absent, anterior epigynal margin inverted u-shaped (fig. 489)... .......................... 27

27. Area surrounded by anterior margin about as wide as long (fig. 489)........................ N. woodstock

– Area surrounded by anterior margin twice as wide as long (fig. 514).... 28

28. Spermathecae sausage-shaped, twisted, transverse, ending dorsally (fig. 515).................... N. thatch

– Spermathecae ending ventrally (fig. 495)................... N. arenaria