Aname barakula, Wilson & Harvey & Simmons & Rix, 2025

Wilson, Jeremy D., Harvey, Mark S., Simmons, Leigh W. & Rix, Michael G., 2025, An integrative systematic revision of the wishbone spiders (Araneae: Anamidae: Aname L. Koch, 1873) of subtropical and tropical eastern Australia, with the description of 55 new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 985, pp. 1-298 : 73-74

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.985.2845
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scientific name	Aname barakula
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Aname barakula -complex

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Remarks

See the key to complexes and Figures 3–5 View Fig View Fig View Fig for diagnostic information. In life, spiders of the barakula - complex vary from dark tan to almost black, and are fairly uniform in colour over the carapace and legs ( Fig. 8 View Fig ). Females of the barakula -complex generally have reflective bronze setae on the carapace, and sometimes also on the dorsal abdomen. Male colour and setation in life is unknown. Spiders of this complex generally construct an open, silk-lined burrow with some silk spilling out from the entrance, sometimes with a slightly built up ‘collar’ of soil around the entrance, and with a hidden secondary ‘wishbone’ entrance. The entrance can be large relative to the spider that inhabits it (see the image of an A. barakula sp. nov. individual in its burrow entrance in Fig. 8 View Fig ).

Distribution

The barakula -complex is currently known to occur only in the Brigalow Belt South bioregion of south-eastern Queensland, and species tend to have quite small natural ranges ( Fig. 8 View Fig ). In the Mount Moffatt region of Carnarvon National Park, two species ( A. ammolithica sp. nov. and A. lambkinae sp. nov.) appear to occur in sympatry (unusually for Aname in the same complex).

Composition

The barakula -complex includes five described species: Aname ammolithica sp. nov., A. barakula sp. nov., A. braemar sp. nov., A. lambkinae sp. nov., and A. truncata sp. nov.

Key to species in the Aname barakula -complex

Note: males are unknown for A. braemar sp. nov., and A. truncata sp. nov., and females are unknown for A. ammolithica sp. nov.

1. Males.................................................................................................................................................. 2

– Females .............................................................................................................................................. 4

Males

2. Sternum length ~1.3 × width; metatarsus I with a more pronounced heel ( Fig. 53 View Fig )........................... .......................................................................................................................... A. lambkinae sp. nov.

– Sternum more elongate (length>1.35 × width); metatarsus I with a less pronounced heel ( Figs 49 View Fig , 50 View Fig )...................................................................................................................................................... 3

3. Posterior sternal sigilla positioned medially (distance of posterior sigilla from sternum centre/ sternum length ~ 0.17); tibia I length ~3.2 × width ( Fig. 49 View Fig ) ...................................... A. ammolithica sp. nov.

– Posterior sternal sigilla positioned more laterally (distance of posterior sigilla from sternum centre/ sternum length ~0.26); tibia I more elongate (length ~3.5 × width) ( Fig. 50 View Fig ) ............................................................................................................... A. barakula sp. nov.

Females

4. Spermathecae with lateral vesicles with distinct, widened crowns ( Figs 51–52 View Fig View Fig ).............................. 5

– Spermathecae with lateral vesicles without widened crowns ( Figs 54–55 View Fig View Fig ) ...................................... 6

5. Spermathecae medial vesicle length ~0.8 × lateral vesicle length ( Fig. 51 View Fig )....... A. barakula sp. nov.

– Spermathecae with longer medial vesicles (~ 1.2 × lateral vesicle length) ( Fig. 52 View Fig ) .......................... ............................................................................................................................. A. braemar sp. nov.

6. Spermathecae lateral vesicle length ~3.6 × width; medial vesicles strongly bent and with distinct crowns ( Fig. 54 View Fig )................................................................................................ A. lambkinae sp. nov.

– Spermathecae with less elongate medial vesicles (length ~1.6 × width), and medial vesicles that are straighter and with less distinct crowns ( Fig. 55 View Fig )................................................ A. truncata sp. nov.