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Australian Assassins, Part I: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of mid-eastern Australia
Michael G. Rix
Mark S. Harvey
出版
PenSoft Publishers LTD
, 2011-08-15
主題
Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology
ISBN
9546426016
9789546426017
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=yJzgRwDXbyQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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The Assassin Spiders of the family Archaeidae are an ancient and iconic lineage of basal araneomorph spiders, characterised by a specialised araneophagic ecology and unique, ?pelican-like? cephalic morphology. Found throughout the rainforests, wet sclerophyll forests and mesic heathlands of south-western, south-eastern and north-eastern Australia, the genus
Austrarchaea
Forster & Platnick, 1984 includes a diverse assemblage of relictual, largely short-range endemic species. With recent dedicated field surveys and significant advances in our understanding of archaeid biology and ecology, numerous new species of assassin spiders have been discovered in the montane sub-tropical and warm-temperate closed forests of mid-eastern Australia, including several rare or enigmatic taxa and species of conservation concern. This fauna is revised and 17 new species are described from south-eastern Queensland and eastern New South Wales:
A. alani
sp. n.,
A. aleenae
sp. n.,
A. binfordae
sp. n.,
A. christopheri
sp. n.,
A. clyneae
sp. n.,
A. cunninghami
sp. n.,
A. dianneae
sp. n.,
A. harmsi
sp. n.,
A. helenae
sp. n.,
A. judyae
sp. n.,
A. mascordi
sp. n.,
A. mcguiganae
sp. n.,
A. milledgei
sp. n.,
A. monteithi
sp. n.,
A. platnickorum
sp. n.,
A. raveni
sp. n. and
A. smithae
sp. n. Adult specimens of the type species,
A. nodosa
(Forster, 1956) are redescribed from the Lamington Plateau, south-eastern Queensland, and distinguished from the sympatric species
A. dianneae
sp. n. A key to species and a molecular phylogenetic analysis of COI and COII mtDNA sequences complement the species-level taxonomy, with maps, habitat photos, natural history information and conservation assessments provided for all species.