Raveniella luteola Rix &amp; Harvey 2010, comb. n.
Creators: name: Rix, Michael
name: Harvey, Mark
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Micropholcommatidae
Raveniella
Raveniella luteola

description: <i>Raveniella luteola</i> (Hickman, 1945), comb. n. Figs 46B, 74, 75C, 78 A–C, 79–83 <i>Textricella luteola</i> Hickman, 1945: 144, figs 11–15. Forster, 1959: 275, fig. 3. Forster &amp; Platnick, 1981: 266, figs 11–12, 25–26. Forster &amp; Platnick, 1984: 92, figs 356, 368. Brignoli, 1983: 375, 695. Davies, 1985: 113. Platnick, 2009. <b>Type material.</b> Syntype male and female: Mount Wellington, Tasmania, Australia, from moss, 23.VII.1943 (AMS KS6693). <b>Selected material examined.</b> <b>AUSTRALIA: Tasmania:</b> Mount Wellington, Horseshoe Bend, 25.IX.1977, P. McQuillan, 1&amp;female; (WAM T94136); Mount Wellington, Lenah Valley, 27.IV.2006, M. Rix, 9♁, 3&amp;female; (WAM T77730 SEM♁); same data, 1♁ (WAM T80029 DNA-MPE); Mount Wellington, Woods Track to O’Grady’s Falls, 28.IV.2006, M. Rix, L. Boutin, 1♁ (WAM T94102); Cuckoo Falls, near Scottsdale, 26.IV.2006, M. Rix, 4♁, 5&amp;female; (WAM T94103 SEM &amp;female;). <b>Victoria:</b> Beauchamp Falls, Otway Ranges, 24.IV.2006, M. Rix, 1♁, 10&amp;female; (WAM T94101); Yarra Ranges National Park, Mount Donna Buang, 27.V.1990, D. Black, 1&amp;female; (WAM T94151); Yarra Ranges National Park, ‘ The Beeches’, near Marysville, 18.IV.2006, M. Rix, 3♁, 5&amp;female; (WAM T94104). <b>New South Wales:</b> Dorrigo National Park, Wonga Walk and track towards Never Never Picnic Area, 11.IV.2006, M. Rix, 5♁, 2&amp;female; (WAM T94095); Kosciusko National Park, Snowy Mountains, uphill from Betts Creek Crossing, 16.IV.2006, M. Rix, A. Rix, 1♁, 3&amp;female; (WAM T94100). <b>Queensland:</b> Curtis Farm, Canungra, 31.III.1979, G. Monteith, 1♁, 1&amp;female; (AMNH). <b>Remarks.</b> <i>Raveniella luteola</i> is a distinctive and widespread species in south-eastern Australia, occurring in mesic forests from south-eastern Queensland to Tasmania, at both low and high altitudes. It can be extremely common in the moss, leaf litter and ferny understory of temperate rainforests (M. Rix, pers. obs.), often occurring in sympatry with other south-eastern Australian textricellin species, e.g. <i>Eterosonycha alpina</i>, <i>E. aquilina</i>, <i>Epigastrina fulva</i>, <i>R. hickmani</i> and <i>Normplatnicka lamingtonensis</i>. In alpine habitats at Kosciusko National Park, specimens of <i>R. luteola</i> have been collected from morning-thawed sphagnum moss, where the spiders presumably survive freezing night-time temperatures in the subniveal space (M. Rix, pers. obs.).
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 page 49, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.36.306, http://zenodo.org/record/576620
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