Queenvic goanna, PLATNICK, 2000

PLATNICK, NORMAN I., 2000, A Relimitation And Revision Of The Australasian Ground Spider Family Lamponidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2000 (245), pp. 1-328 : 212-213

Queenvic goanna , new species

Figures 518–521 ; Map 58

TYPE: Female holotype taken in pitfall trap at an elevation of 545 m on Goanna Creek Road, Richmond Range State Forest , 288369S, 1528419E, New South Wales (Feb. 4–Apr. 9, 1993; M. Gray, G. Cassis), deposited in AMS ( KS36011 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: This seems to be the sister species of Q. piccadilly , sharing with it a similar, transversely oriented distal prong on the male palpal conductor and longitudinally oriented anterior epigynal ducts; males can easily be distinguished by the shorter, wider retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 519), females by the short, wider epigynal hood and larger epigynal pockets (fig. 520).

MALE: Total length 2.9. Coloration as in Q. mackay except carapace with patches of white scales laterally on pars cephalica and on intercoxal areas of pars thoracica. Leg spination typical for genus. Retrolateral tibial apophysis relatively short, wide, sharply pointed (fig. 519); distal lobe of conductor oriented transversely, subdistal lobe large, rounded (fig. 518).

FEMALE: Total length 2.9. Coloration as in male. Leg spines absent. Epigynal hood wide, short, lateral pockets large (fig. 520); anterior ducts oriented longitudinally, expanded anteriorly (fig. 521).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: New South Wales: Jamieson Park, Narrabeen , 338439S, 1518189E, Nov. 6–20, 1995, pitfall, angophora woodland, ridge top, elev. 20 m (M. Gray, H. Smith, AMS KS49606 ), 1 ?; Kiwarrak State Forest, near Taree , 318589S, 1528269E, Aug.6–Sept. 19, 1979, pitfall, litter (W. King, AMS KS3954 ), 1 ?; Mount Brown Road, 0.1 km N Y intersection at Mount Brown, Richmond Range State Forest , 288379S, 1528439E, Feb. 4–Apr. 9, 1993, pitfall, elev. 480 m (M. Gray, G. Cassis, AMS KS36021 ), 1 ?; junction, Range and Lockleys Roads, Doubleduke State Forest , 298149S, 1538119E, Feb. 4–Apr. 9, 1993, pitfall, elev. 30 m (M. Gray, G. Cassis, AMS KS39598 ), 1/; junction, Tubrabucca and Omadale Brook Roads, Stewarts Brook State Forest , 318559S, 1518249E, Nov. 22–23, 1996, elev. 1360 m (N. Platnick, R. Raven, V. Ovtsharenko, K. Catley, AMNH), 1/. Queensland: Kroombit Tops , 248229S, 1518019E, Feb. 25, 1982, open forest, under logs (R. Raven, QMB S28283 ), 1 ?; Marlaybrook, Bunya Mountains , 268549S, 1518359E, Mar. 2, 1976, litter (R. Raven, V. Davies, QMB S28117 ), 2 ?; Olsens Caverns, The Caves , 238109S, 1508289E, Apr. 21–July 18, 1990, open forest, pitfall (D. Wallace, R. Raven, QMB S30407 ), 1 ?; Upper Brookfield , 278309S, 1528559E, Oct.– Nov. 1980, araucaria litter (R. Raven, V. Davies, QMB S28121 ), 1/.

DISTRIBUTION: Queensland and New South Wales (map 58).

Figures

Map 58. Records of Queenvic kelty, new species (squares) and Q. goanna, new species (circles).

Figs. 518–521. Queenvic goanna, new species. 518. Left male palp, ventral view. 519. Same, retrolateral view. 520. Epigynum, ventral view. 521. Same, dorsal view.