Leichhardteus badius Baehr & Raven 2013
Creators: name: Raven, Robert J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Corinnidae
Leichhardteus
Leichhardteus badius

description: Leichhardteus badius Baehr & Raven, 2013
(Fig. 54a–d)
Leichhardteus badius Baehr & Raven, 2013: 353, figs 2H, 5A–K, 11.
New Material. Queensland: 1♀, Bunya Mtns, 26°53'S, 151°36'E, rainforest, flight intercept trap, 1 Dec 1991 – 7 Jan 1992, D.J. Cook, QM S50416; 1♀, Perseverance Creek Forest Reserve, site 1, 27°21'S, 152°06'E, eucalypt woodland, 4 Dec 2003, QMP, QM S61198; 1♀, Binjour Plateau, Swains Rd, 25°32'S, 151°30'E, vine scrub, pitfall, 20 Dec 1997 – 26 Apr 1998, G. Monteith, QM S50407; 1♀, Blackbutt Ra summit, 5 km E Benarkin, 26°52'S, 152°11'E, rainforest, pitfall, 24 Nov 1995 – 3 Feb 1996, G. Monteith, QM S50415; 1♀, Toowoomba, 27°34'S, 151°57'E, litter, 11 Oct 2003, R. Atkinson, QM S61047; 1♀, Split Yard Ck, 27°23'S, 152°38'E, vine scrub, human dung trap, 13 Jan–7 Apr 1999, G. Monteith, G. Thompson, QM S49983; 1♀, Bunya Mtns NP, Dandabah, 26°54'S, 151°34'E, sweeping/beating, 1–7 Mar 1976, V. Davies, L. Chapman, QM S29512; 1♂, Yarraman, Cooyar Ra, 26°52'S, 151°54'E, rainforest, flight intercept trap, 7 Jan–2 Mar 1992, D.J. Cook, QM S25023; 1♀, Yarraman, 26°51'S, 152°00'E, rainforest, flight intercept trap, 7 Jan–2 Mar 1992, D.J. Cook, QM S25006.
Diagnosis. Males differ from those of L. bimaculatus and L. kroombit in lacking a paracymbial spine (Fig. 54b); females differ from those of L. kroombit in the relatively wider separated copulatory openings (Fig. 54c).
Supplementary description holotype male QM S31555. Carapace 3.16 long, 2.47 wide. Total length 6.2. Like ♀ except as follows: spines: I: fe pv1d2; ti v2.2.2; me v2.2. II: like I but also ti p1. III: fe p2d3r2; ti p2d1r2v2.2.2; me p3r3v2.2.3. IV: fe p2d3r1; ti p2d1r2v2.2.3; me p3r3v2.2.3. Palp: fe p1d2; pa p1 weak; ti p 2w. Palp: femur with long retrodistal bulge. Paracymbial spine entirely absent; bulb like L. bimaculatus.
Female. Based on allotype and QM S31545. Carapace 4.00 long, 3.06 wide. Total length 9.1. Colour: dorsal scute small, darker orange brown; genital scute orange brown. Carapace: light cover of feathery white hairs on interstrial ridges. Chelicerae: large, porrect; fang shield low. 3P, 2 R. Sternum: with strong edge and inner groove, not pustulose. Slight precoxal thickenings opposite all coxae, precoxal sclerites only at I/ II. Legs: coxae not ventrally pustulose. RCH evident; all trochanters notched shallowly. Scopula on tarsi I– IV for distal half, divided on metatarsi I and II; sparsely setose; no feathery hairs evident. Spines: tibiae & metatarsi I and II with long tapering spines, 5–15% overlapping. I: fe p1d2; ti v2.2.2; me v2.2. II: fe p1d2; ti v2.2.2; me v2.2. III: fe p2d3r1; ti p2r2v2.2.2; me p3d3v2.2.3. IV: fe p2d3r1; ti p2r2v2.2.2; me p3r3v2.2.3. Palp: fe p1d2; pa p1d1 apical bristle; ti p2 basal; ta p2r1v3 distal. Claws: short dentate, few long spatulate hairs just above it. Claw tufts bigger on IV than on I. Abdomen: small, triangular dorsal scute from front just onto dorsal surface; no ventral scute; genital scute with distinct paragenital brackets extending laterally over distal booklung margin; tracheal scute small, ovoid with rounded ridge. Epigyne: broad, domed with paired spiralled lateral fossae.
Distribution and Habitat. Known only from rainforest in the Bunya Mtns and Yarraman, Southeast Queensland.
description: Published as part of Raven, Robert J., 2015, & lt; strong & gt; A revision of ant-mimicking spiders of the family Corinnidae (Araneae) in the Western Pacific & lt; / strong & gt;, pp. 1-258 in Zootaxa 3958 (1) on pages 105-106, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3958.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14951911