Pillara macleayensis, Gray & Smith, 2004

Gray, M. R. & Smith, H. M., 2004, The “ Striped ” Group of Stiphidiid Spiders: Two New Genera from Northeastern New South Wales, Australia (Araneae: Stiphidiidae: Amaurobioidea), Records of the Australian Museum 56 (1), pp. 123-138 : 123-138

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.56.2004.1394
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5231731
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC3215-FFDA-A960-188B-F9F0FECB0CBC
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pillara macleayensis
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Pillara macleayensis View in CoL n.sp.

Figs. 8b View Fig , 11a–d View Fig

Etymology. The species name is taken from the Macleay River region which encompasses the type locality.

Types. Australia, New South Wales. HOLOTYPE Ƌ KS34508, 3 mi E of Carrai on Kempsey road, 30°57'15"S 152°23'27"E, 26 Apr 1974, M. R. Gray GoogleMaps . PARATYPES ♀ KS70130, data as holotype; Ƌ KS34507, ♀ KS70131, Carrai, near top of Bat Cave Trail, 30°59'03"S 152°20'27"E, 26 Apr 1974, M. R. Gray, sheet web in litter; ♀ KS34764, Carrai Bat Cave , 30°58'59"S 152°19'49"E, under rock GoogleMaps .

Other material. Australia, New South Wales. ♀ KS9419, Bellangry SF, Wilson River Flora Reserve , 31°18'S 152°29'E, 6 Mar 1981, M. R. Gray GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. Differsfrom other species inhaving the bifurcate RTA processes markedly dissimilar and widely divergent. Epigynal fossa very small.

Male ( holotype). BL 5.96, CL 2.90 (2.73–2.90), CW 2.00, CapW 1.10, EGW 0.82, LL 0.39, LW 0.41, SL 1.39, SW 1.29. Legs: 1243 (I: 17.00; II: 14.25; III: 11.83; IV: 14.00); ratio tibia I length:CW = 1:0.37. Male Palp: ( Fig. 11a,b View Fig ). Deeply bifurcate RTA with large, thin, widely divergent and dissimilar processes, (ventral processlong, tapering; dorsal process shorter, plate-like). RVTA with a small, acute retroapical ridge. Cymbial bristles weak. Tegular lobebasal. Embolic origin probasal. Conductor stalked, bent and extended retrolaterally as a sickle-like, grooved spine. MA a prominent, curved, membraneous process.

Female (KS70130). BL 5.96, CL 2.53 (2.37–2.53), CW 1.67, CapW 1.18, EGW 0.78, LL 0.35, LW 0.39, SL 1.22, SW 1.12. Legs: 1423 (I: 11.00; II: 8.92; III: 7.58; IV: 9.25); ratio tibia Ilength:CW = 1:0.59. Epigynum: (KS34764, Fig. 11c View Fig ). Fossa a small pit set in a shallow broad depression; pit narrowest anteriorly where there is a small darker area of strongly sclerotized cuticle; copulatory ducts opening anterolaterally from fossa. Internal genitalia: (KS34764, Fig. 11d View Fig ). Copulatory ducts less broad than in P. karuah ; spermathecae closely adjacent medially.

Distribution. Carrai Plateauand the Hastings Range of New South Wales.