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Newsletter 82 (August 2011) Australasian Arachnology 82 Page 1 Australasian Arachnology 82 Page 2 THE AUSTRALASIAN ARTICLES ARACHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY The newsletter Australasian Arachnology depends on the contributions of members. www.australasian-arachnology.org Please send articles to the Editor: Acari – Araneae – Amblypygi – Opiliones – Palpigradi – Pseudoscorpiones – Pycnogonida – Michael G. Rix Schizomida – Scorpiones – Uropygi Department of Terrestrial Zoology Western Australian Museum The aim of the society is to promote interest in Locked Bag 49, Welshpool DC, W.A. 6986 the ecology, behaviour and taxonomy of Email: [email protected] arachnids of the Australasian region. Articles should be typed and saved as a MEMBERSHIP Microsoft Word document, with text in Times New Roman 12-point font. Only electronic Membership is open to all who have an interest email (preferred) or posted CD-ROM submiss- in arachnids – amateurs, students and ions will be accepted. professionals – and is managed by our Administrator (note new address ): Previous issues of the newsletter are available at http://www.australasian- Volker W. Framenau arachnology.org/newsletter/issues . Phoenix Environmental Sciences P.O. Box 857 LIBRARY Balcatta, W.A. 6914 Email: [email protected] For those members who do not have access to a scientific library, the society has a large number Membership fees in Australian dollars (per 4 of reference books, scientific journals and paper issues): reprints available, either for loan or as photo- *discount personal institutional copies. For all enquiries concerning publica- Australia $8 $10 $12 tions please contact our Librarian: NZ/Asia $10 $12 $14 Elsewhere $12 $14 $16 Jean-Claude Herremans There is no agency discount. *Discount rates apply to P.O. Box 291 pensioners, students and the unemployed (please Manly, New South Wales 1655 provide proof of status). Email: [email protected] Cheques are payable in Australian dollars to Professional members are encouraged to send in “Australasian Arachnological Society”. Any their arachnological reprints as they become number of issues can be paid for in advance, available. and receipts can be issued upon request. Members will receive a PDF version* of the COVER ILLUSTRATION newsletter Australasian Arachnology , with Pseudoscorpion (family Pseudogarypidae): hard-copies available for libraries and societies. Neopseudogarypus scutellatus Morris, 1948 Members will be notified by email when their from Cataract Gorge, Launceston, Tasmania . subscription has expired. Image by Mike Rix *NOTE. PDF-only as of Issue 80 Australasian Arachnology 82 Page 3 EDITORIAL… featured in a new publication, with details of its taxonomy and distribution listed alongside a Welcome to Issue 82 of Australasian short précis detailing the results of the paper. It Arachnology . The last six months have been is hoped that this format will allow non- extremely productive for the Australasian professional members to ‘access’ more of the Arachnological Society, with nine new scientific literature, and also act as an historical members and numerous new papers being record of research being undertaken. In this published by existing AAS members. It is issue, two spider families – the Selenopidae and wonderful to see such a dynamic and growing Archaeidae – are in focus after two mono- membership, and to witness the continuing graphic revisions of Australian species were fascination elicited by our remarkable arachnid recently published. Volker Framenau also tells a fauna. Indeed, since the beginning of 2011, over remarkable story of mass dispersal in young 50 new species of arachnids have been wolf spiders, Robert Whyte introduces the described from Australasia, including pseudo- concept of ‘arachno-tourism’ after a recent trip scorpions and numerous spiders in the families to New Zealand, and Julianne Waldock and Selenopidae, Archaeidae, Amaurobiidae, Tet- Sharon Zuiddam provide book reviews on the ragnathidae and Araneidae. The sheer diversity Spiders of Bendigo (Bendigo Field Naturalists of undescribed arachnid species in Australasia Club, 2001) and Spider Silk (CSIRO Pub- has always posed a challenge to systematists lishing, 2011). and ecologists, but major attempts are being made to document the fauna. Take, for ex- I wish all members the very best for the rest of ample, Pinkfloydia , a new genus of Tetrag- 2011, and please consider contributing articles nathidae recently described from Western for inclusion in future editions. Australia! Cheers, Continuing on the research front, and several Mike members attended the American Arach- nological Society Conference in Portland (Oregon) in July, which proved to be an exce- llent meeting full of interesting research and discussions. Since the last edition of the news- letter there have also been some significant review or general discussion articles published by our members, including papers on fire ecology, subterranean biology, short-range endemism and conservation biology. A detailed list of these and other papers published since the last edition is available at the end of the newsletter. In this issue I have introduced a new column format called ‘ Arachnid Research In Focus …’, which will be used to present the Juvenile female Bolas Spider ( Ordgarius results of recently published papers, and to monstrosus Keyserling, 1886; family Araneidae) from Brisbane, Queensland. Note the silken bolas, highlight research currently being conducted on used to capture male moths lured by deceptive Australasian arachnids. Each column will chemical mimicry. illustrate and describe an arachnid taxon Image by Robert Raven. Australasian Arachnology 82 Page 4 MEMBERSHIP UPDATES Arachnid Research In Focus … Flatties (Selenopidae) New Members: Crews, S.C. and Harvey, M.S. (2011). The spider Steve Andrew family Selenopidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Ridgewood, Western Australia 6030 Australasia and the Oriental Region. ZooKeys 99, 1-103. John Crutchfield Hesket, Victoria 3442 John Douglas Kings Meadows, Tasmania 7249 Philip Edwards Croydon, Victoria 3136 Ryan Ellis Beckenham, Western Australia 6107 Jess Marsh Male Karaops jarrit Crews & Harvey, 2011 Kingscote, South Australia 5223 from Perth, Western Australia. Image by Volker Framenau. Mathew Mundackatharappel Vennala, India 682028 Taxonomy: Jürgen Otto Family Selenopidae; genus Karaops Crews & St Ives, New South Wales 2075 Harvey, 2011 (includes 24 described species from Australia). Frank Schneider Distribution: Ludwigshafen, Germany 67067 Mainland Australia. ___________________________ Précis: General Announcements This paper presents a taxonomic revision of the selenopid spiders or ‘flatties’ of Australasia and Michael Augee, editor for the Linnean Society the Oriental region. Flatties are small to med- of New South Wales, has announced that the ium-sized araneomorph spiders, with a crab-like Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New gait and extremely flat bodies. Most species South Wales will now be published elec- occur under tree bark or rocks, and all run very tronically online. Volume 132 will be the last quickly when disturbed. Selenops australiensis issue of the Proceedings to be published in hard L. Koch, 1875 is transferred to the new endemic copy format. The Linnean Society of NSW will, Australian genus Karaops , and an additional 23 starting with Volume 133, offer rapid pub- new species are described from throughout lication of fully refereed papers . At present the mainland Australia. This is the first taxonomic Society does not plan to charge users for access revision to document the diverse Australian to any of its material. Full details will be selenopid fauna, providing keys and diagnostic published in Volume 132 and on the Society’s illustrations to all known species. See: web page, see: http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/issue/99/ . www.linneansocietynsw.org.au . ___________________________ ___________________________ Australasian Arachnology 82 Page 5 Arachnid Research In Focus … Gossamer Extraordinaire! Assassin Spiders (Archaeidae) by Volker Framenau 1, Meri Macpherson 2 Rix, M.G. & Harvey, M.S. (2011). Australian and Dave Munro 3 Assassins, Part I: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of mid-eastern 1Phoenix Environmental Sciences, P.O. Box 857, Australia. ZooKeys 123, 1-100. Balcatta, Western Australia 6914 [email protected] [email protected] Many spider species disperse by ballooning, which means young spiderlings drift through the air, carried by the wind on a thin strand of their own silk, the “gossamer” thread (Bell et al. , 2005; Decae, 1987). This behaviour is well- studied in a number of spider groups and sometimes also occurs in larger adult spiders (Schneider et al. , 2001). Representatives of Juvenile Austrarchaea raveni Rix & Harvey, 2011 from Mount Glorious, Queensland. many spider families are known to balloon, Image by Greg Anderson. especially smaller species of Money Spiders (Linyphiidae) (Weyman, 1995) and Comb- Taxonomy: footed Spiders (Theridiidae) (Valerio, 1977). Family Archaeidae; genus Austrarchaea Forster Many Wolf Spider species (Lycosidae) also & Platnick, 1984 (includes 22 described species balloon (Richter, 1970) and this behaviour, in from Australia). addition to mobile brood care, may contribute to the ecological success of the family. For Distribution: example, wolf spiders are usually among the Mainland eastern and south-western Australia. first colonisers after volcanic eruptions (Craw- Précis: ford et al. , 1995; Edwards and Thornton, 2001). This paper
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