Namea Raven 1984
Creators: name: Rix, Michael G.
name: Wilson, Jeremy D.
name: Harvey, Mark S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Nemesiidae
Namea

description: Key to the species of Namea known from the D’Aguilar Range of south-eastern Queensland (males only)
1. Embolus long, reflexed and whip-like, arising from bulb laterally or proximally (Figs 14 b–19b)....................... 3
– Embolus short, arising from bulb terminally or sub-terminally (Figs 20b, 21b)..................................... 2
2. Embolus arising from bulb sub-terminally (Fig. 20b; see also Rix et al. 2020, figs 78–80); retroventral margin of palpal tibia with single, isolated, proximal macroseta (Fig. 20b; see also Rix et al. 2020, figs 78, 79).......... N. salanitri Raven, 1984
– Embolus arising from bulb terminally (Fig. 21b; see also Rix et al. 2020, figs 100–102); retroventral margin of palpal tibia with multiple macrosetae proximally and/or medially (Fig. 21b; see also Rix et al. 2020, figs 100, 101)... N. dahmsi Raven, 1984
3. Retroventral margin of palpal tibia with multiple macrosetae proximally and/or medially (Fig. 17b; see also Rix et al. 2020, figs 187, 188)........................................................................ N. excavans Raven, 1984
– Retroventral margin of palpal tibia with single, isolated, proximal macroseta (Figs 14 b–16b, 18b, 19b)................. 4
4. Macroseta v1 on tibia I large, reaching beyond ventro-distal margin of tibia I (Figs 14a, 31); isolated, proximal retroventral macroseta on palpal tibia long, longer than length of palpal bulb (Figs 14b, 32)..................... N. gloriosa sp. nov.
– Macroseta v1 on tibia I shorter, not reaching beyond ventro-distal margin of tibia I (Figs 15a, 16a, 18a, 19a); isolated, proximal retroventral macroseta on palpal tibia shorter than length of palpal bulb (Figs 15b, 16b, 18b, 19b)...................... 5
5. Tibia I with prolateral (p) macrosetae (Figs 15a, 16a); palpal cymbium markedly cleft distally in retrolateral view (Figs 15b, 16b)................................................................................................ 6
– Tibia I without prolateral (p) macrosetae (Figs 18a, 19a); palpal cymbium not markedly cleft distally in retrolateral view (Figs 18b, 19b)............................................................................................ 7
6. Tibia I with shallow, only slightly concave ventro-distal excavation anterior to macroseta v1 (Figs 15a, 64); palpal bulb produced along transverse axis and swollen near base of embolus (Fig. 66); carapace not covered with downy reflective setae (Figs 55, 57)............................................................................. N. nigritarsus sp. nov.
– Tibia I with more strongly concave ventro-distal excavation anterior to macroseta v1 (Figs 16a, 77); palpal bulb heart-shaped (Figs 78–80); carapace covered in downy reflective setae (Figs 68, 70)............................... N. nebo sp. nov.
7. Palpal bulb smoothly sub-spherical (Figs 19b, 45–47); tibia I with shallow, concave ventro-distal excavation anterior to macroseta v1 (Figs 19a, 44).................................................................. N. gowardae sp. nov.
– Palpal bulb broadly pyriform, with terminal protuberance bearing pair of tiny tubercle-like nodules (Fig. 18b; see also Rix et al. 2020, figs 26, 28); tibia I broader, with more strongly concave ventro-distal excavation anterior to macroseta v1 (Fig. 18a; see also Rix et al. 2020, fig. 25)...................................................... N. brisbanensis Raven, 1984
description: Published as part of Rix, Michael G., Wilson, Jeremy D. & Harvey, Mark S., 2020, The open-holed trapdoor spiders (Mygalomorphae: Anamidae: Namea) of Australia's D'Aguilar Range: revealing an unexpected subtropical hotspot of rainforest diversity, pp. 71-91 in Zootaxa 4861 (1) on pages 75-76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4861.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/4414567