Lampona taroom, 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 : 79-81

Lampona taroom , new species

Figures 162–165 ; Map 16

TYPE: Male holotype taken in baited flight intercept trap at Boggomoss, via Taroom , 258269S, 1508019E, Queensland (Nov. 12, 1996 – Jan. 1997; D. Cook, G. Monteith), deposited in QMB ( S36315 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: This species seems closest to L. yanchep , sharing with it a subbasal knob on the male palpal femur and a deeply excavated epigynal atrium; males differ in having a longer, more curved tip on the retro­ lateral tibial apophysis (fig. 163), females in having an anteriorly narrower epigynal atrium (fig. 164).

MALE: Total length 7.2. Abdominal dorsum shrunken from cuticle, markings indistinct, apparently with paramedian white markings, venter and legs unmarked. Palpal femur with distinct subbasal knob; retrolateral tibial apophysis long, with recurved tip (fig. 163); palpal bulb elongate, embolus with long, strong tip (fig. 162).

FEMALE: Total length 7.0. Abdominal dorsum with markings indistinct but apparently with posterior white chevrons, venter unmarked, tibiae IV with subdistal, slightly darkened rings. Epigynum with longitudinal atrium, deeply excavated anteriorly (fig. 164); spermathecae tripartite, median portions much longer than anterior or posterior portions (fig. 165).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: Taroom District, 258259S, 1498589E, Sept. 10–Nov. 12, 1996, pitfall, vine thicket on hill (P. Lawless, QMB S34406 ), 1/.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from southeastern Queensland (map 16).

Figures

Map 16. Records of Lampona yanchep, new species (circles), L. taroom, new species (square), and L. allyn, new species (triangles).

Figs. 162–165. Lampona taroom, new species. 162. Left male palp, ventral view. 163. Same, retrolateral view. 164. Epigynum, ventral view. 165. Same, dorsal view.