Queenvic piccadilly, 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 : 213-215

Queenvic piccadilly , new species

Figures 522–525 ; Map 59

TYPE: Female holotype taken at an elevation of 800 m at Piccadilly Circus , 358199S, 1488519E, Australian Capital Territory (Jan. 16, 1970; R. Taylor), deposited in QMB .

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

DIAGNOSIS: This seems to be the sister species of Q. goanna (see above); males can easily be distinguished by the flattened, distally angled retrolateral tibial apophysis (fig. 523), females by the more triangular epigynal hood and smaller epigynal pockets (fig. 524).

MALE: Total length 2.7. Coloration as in Q. mackay except carapace with patches of white scales laterally on pars cephalica and on intercoxal areas of pars thoracica; abdominal dorsum with posterior stripes situated at about half of abdominal length; femora slightly darkened but legs otherwise unmarked. Leg spination typical for genus. Retrolateral tibial apophysis relatively long, uniformly wide, with distal portion flattened, angled (fig. 523); distal prong of conductor oriented transversely, close to relatively small subdistal prong (fig. 522).

FEMALE: Total length 2.6. Coloration as in male. Leg spination typical for genus. Epigynal hood triangular, lateral pockets relatively small (fig. 524); anterior ducts oriented longitudinally, expanded anteriorly (fig. 525).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Australian Capital Territory: Black Mountain , 358169S, 1498069E, Aug. 7, 1970, dry sclerophyll, elev. 620 m (J. Summers, QMB), 3?, 2/, July 10, 1976, dry sclerophyll (T. Weir, QMB), 1/, Dec. 1983 – Jan. 1984, pitfalls (R. Moran, QMB), 1?, 1 /; 0.8 km N Black Mountain peak, 358169S, 1498069E, June 17, 1970, Berlese, dry sclerophyll, elev. 620 m (J. Simmons, QMB), 2 ?; Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve , 358289S, 1488529E, Mar. 9, 1978, pitfall, litter (P. Ormay, AMS KS13949 ), 1 ?; Wombat Creek, 6 km NE Piccadilly Circus, 358199S, 1488519E, Feb. 1984, elev. 750 m (T. Weir, J. Lawrence, Johnson, QMB), 3?. New South Wales: Bondi State Forest, S Bombala , 378089S, 1498099E, Oct. 15–Nov. 14, 1980, eucalypt litter (G. Gowing, AMS KS11168 , 11911 ), 1?, 1 /; Dodds Fire Trail, 1 km from Enfield Road, Enfield State Forest , 318239S, 1518539E, Feb. 4–Apr. 9, 1993, pitfall, elev. 1050 m (M. Gray, G. Cassis, AMS KS37375 ), 1 ?; Mummel Forest Road, 8.8 km N junction with Enfield Forest Road, Enfield State Forest , 318169S, 1518509E, Feb. 4–Apr. 9, 1993, pitfall, elev. 1350 m (M. Gray, G. Cassis, AMS KS37364 ), 3?. South Australia: lagoon edge, Gum Lagoon Conservation Park , 368189S, 1408029E, Mar. 26, 1992, vibration (D. Hirst, SAM N1997 /86), 1 ?; northern lagoon, Gum Lagoon Conservation Park, 368179S, 1408019E, Mar. 25, 1992, vibration (D. Hirst, J. Forrest, SAM N1997 /87), 1/. Victoria: Rich­Murrungowar Coupe , 378349S, 1488389E, Oct. 29–Nov. 6, 1991, pitfall, gully (R. Coy, NMV K3537 ), 1/, Mar. 18–25, 1992, pitfall, midslope (R. Coy, NMV K3527 ), 1?.

DISTRIBUTION: Southeastern Australia, except Tasmania (map 59).

Figures

Map 59. Records of Queenvic piccadilly, new species (triangles) and Prionosternum scutatum Dunn (circles).

Figs. 522–525. Queenvic piccadilly, new species. 522. Left male palp, ventral view. 523. Same, retrolateral view. 524. Epigynum, ventral view. 525. Same, dorsal view.