Eterosonycha alpina Butler E 1932
Creators: name: Rix, Michael
name: Harvey, Mark
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Micropholcommatidae
Eterosonycha
Eterosonycha alpina

description: <i>Eterosonycha alpina</i> Butler, 1932 Figs 11D, 48–50, 51A–B, 56–60, 71A, 222 <i>Eterosonycha alpina</i> Butler, 1932: 115, pl. 2, figs 7–13. Roewer, 1942: 357. Bonnet, 1956: 1803. Davies, 1985: 113. Platnick, 2009. <i>Textricella parva</i> Hickman, 1945: 137, figs 1–5, 16. Forster, 1959: 285, fig. 1. Forster &amp; Platnick, 1981: 266, figs 16–17, 23–24. Brignoli, 1983: 375, 695. Davies, 1985: 114. Platnick, 2009. <b>syn. n.</b> <b> Type material (of <i>E. alpina</i>).</b> Syntype male and slide-mounted female: Mount Kosciusko, New South Wales, Australia, in sphagnum moss, I.1931 (♁)/ XI.1923 (&amp;female;), C. Oke (NMV K099/K098). <b> Type material (of <i>T. parva</i>).</b> Syntype male and female: The Cascades, Mount Wellington, Tasmania, Australia, from moss, 26.VI.1943 (AMS KS6694). <b>Selected material examined.</b> <b>AUSTRALIA: Tasmania:</b> Mt Wellington, Lenah Valley, 27.IV.2007, M. Rix, 6♁, 7&amp;female; (WAM T77729); Mt Wellington, Woods Track to O’Grady’s Falls, 28.IV.2006, M. Rix, L. Boutin, 26♁, 49&amp;female; (WAM T94105 SEM♁ &amp;female;); same data, 1♁ (WAM T80030 DNA-MPE); Cuckoo Falls walk, near Scottsdale, 26.IV.2006, M. Rix, 20♁, 36&amp;female; (WAM T94106). <b>Remarks.</b> <i>Eterosonycha alpina</i> is a distinctive, relatively widespread species, found throughout Tasmania and on the Australian mainland north to at least southern New South Wales. Females possess an unmistakeable external epigyne (Fig. 48D) – a characteristic shared by most species of <i>Eterosonycha</i>. Specimens of this species can be extremely abundant in mossy habitats in Tasmania, and <i>E. alpina</i> is the dominant microspider in moss on Mount Wellington, near Hobart, Tasmania (an observation also noted by Hickman 1945).
description: Published as part of <i>Rix, Michael &amp; Harvey, Mark, 2010, The spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneoidea): a relimitation and revision at the generic level, pp. 1-321 in ZooKeys 36 (36)</i> on pages 38-39, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.36.306, http://zenodo.org/record/576620
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