Micropholcomma longissimum
Creators: name: Rix, Michael
name: Harvey, Mark
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Micropholcommatidae
Micropholcomma
Micropholcomma longissimum

description: <i>Micropholcomma longissimum</i> (Butler, 1932) Fig. 15E <i>Plectochetos longissimus</i> Butler, 1932: 107, pl. 1, figs 15–20. Roewer, 1942: 617. Bonnet, 1958: 3707. <i>Micropholcomma longissima</i> (Butler): Forster, 1959: 298, figs 64–69, 137. Forster &amp; Platnick, 1984: 92, figs 360–361, 369–370, 375–376. <i>Micropholcomma longissimum</i> (Butler): Davies, 1985: 89. Platnick, 2009. <b>Type material.</b> Holotype male: Mount Donna Buang, near Warburton, Yarra Ranges, Victoria, Australia, under logs and similar places, 4080 ft, II.1931, C. Oke (NMV K103). <b>Selected material examined.</b> <b>AUSTRALIA: Victoria:</b> Yarra Ranges, Toolangi State Forest, 3 km E. of Toolangi, 15.I.1990, D. Black, 1&amp;female; (WAM T94464); Yarra Ranges, White Hill Track No. 2, 15 km ENE. of Healesville, on Acheron Way, 4.III.1990, D. Black, 2&amp;female; (WAM T94465); same data, 2&amp;female; (WAM T94466); Double Creek Nature Walk, 7 km N. of Mallacoota, 26.X.1990, D. Black, 2♁, 1&amp;female; (WAM T94469); 10 km ENE. of Genoa, near Johnson’s Bridge, 26.X.1990, D. Black, 1♁, 1&amp;female; (WAM T94468); Great Otway National Park, track to Cora Lynn Cascades, near Lorne, 22.IV.2006, M. Rix, 1♁ (WAM T94463); same data, 1♁ (WAM T80018 DNA- MPE); Mount Buffalo National Park, walking tack to Eurobin Falls, 8.V.1990, D. Black, 2&amp;female; (WAM T94467). <b>Remarks.</b> <i>Micropholcomma longissimum</i> is remarkable for the exaggerated length of the male embolus (see Forster and Platnick 1984, fig. 369) and the concomitantly extreme development of the female insemination ducts, the latter of which are very tightly coiled around the fertilisation ducts (Fig. 15E). There are, however, a number of undescribed species of <i>Micropholcomma</i> in both eastern and south-western Australia that share a very similar, ‘super-coiled’ genitalic morphology, as well as several species (e.g. <i>M. linnaei</i>, <i>M. turbans</i>) with a somewhat intermediate morphology between <i>M. longissimum</i> and those taxa with a simple, looped embolus (e.g. <i>M. bryophilum</i>).
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 27, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.36.306, http://zenodo.org/record/576620
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