Aname boreovillosa Wilson, Harvey, Simmons & Rix, 2025, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Wilson, Jeremy D.
name: Harvey, Mark S.
name: Simmons, Leigh W.
name: Rix, Michael G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Anamidae
Aname
Aname boreovillosa

description: Aname boreovillosa sp. nov.
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Figs 1, 11, 73
Diagnosis
Males of A. boreovillosa sp. nov. are unknown.
Females of A. boreovillosa sp. nov. can be distinguished from all species for which females are known except A. occivillosa sp. nov. and A. villosa by the presence of spermathecae with two vesicles, with relatively long, undulating lateral vesicle (lateral vesicle length/ genitalia width>0.25) and tightly undulating medial vesicles (Fig. 73L). Females of A. boreovillosa can be distinguished from those of A. occivillosa and A. villosa by the presence of spermathecae with less elongate lateral vesicles with wide, rounded crowns (lateral vesicle length/ width <2.5) (Fig. 73L; cf. Figs 75, 79–80).
Etymology
The specific epithet ‘ boreovillosa ’ combines the Latin adjective ‘ villosa ’, meaning ‘hairy’ or ‘shaggy’ (and is the species epithet of a closely related and previously described species), with the prefix ‘ boreo -’, meaning ‘northern’, in reference to this species’ close relatedness to Aname villosa, and its northern distribution relative to that species.
Type material
Holotype
AUSTRALIA – Queensland • ♀; Blackdown Tableland National Park, off Charlevue Road; 23°45′ S, 149°06′ E; 839 m a.s.l.; 20 Apr. 2023; J.D. Wilson and M.G. Rix leg.; excavated, open burrow on ground; QMB S118291.
Other material examined
AUSTRALIA – Queensland • 1 ♀; Charlevue Road, W of Dingo; 23°39′ S, 149°10′ E; 168 m a.s.l.; 20 Apr. 2023; J.D. Wilson and M.G. Rix leg.; excavated, open burrow on ground; QMB S118296 • 1 juv.; Blackdown Tableland National Park, off Charlevue Road; 23°45′ S, 149°06′ E; 832 m a.s.l.; 20 Apr. 2023; J.D. Wilson and M.G. Rix leg.; excavated, open burrow on ground; QMB S118289.
Description
Female (holotype, QMB S118291)
GENERAL (Fig. 73A–L). Body length 26.01, in good condition.
DORSAL PROSOMA (Fig. 73A, E–F). Carapace length 9.51, width 8.27, length/width 1.15, clypeus to fovea length/carapace length 0.72, caput width/carapace width 0.80, carapace orange-brown, reflective setae present, light on caput, light on thorax, fovea procurved, fovea width/carapace length 0.16 (Fig. 73A, F); chelicerae red, rastellum absent or inconspicuous, chelicerae length/carapace length 0.54 (Fig. 73A); eye group rectangular, width/length 1.76, eye tubercle present (Fig. 73E).
ABDOMEN (Fig. 73B, D). Abdomen length 11.34, dark brown, dorsal pattern absent, with consistent cover of short setae.
VENTRAL PROSOMA (Fig. 73C, G–I). Labium cuspules present, count =1 (Fig. 73H); maxillae heel distinct, cuspules present, count = about 200, extending posteriorly onto heel, extending laterally about 50% of maxillae length (Fig. 73C, I); coxae cuspules absent, thorn-like setae on prolateral face present (Fig. 73C, I); sternum length/width 1.05, most setae from right-posterior part of sternum are rubbed off, central sternum with consistent covering of short setae, row of longer setae around posterior edges, setae at higher density around anterior edges (Fig. 73G–H); posterior sigilla elongate, central sternum to posterior sigilla length/sternum length 0.23, posterior sigilla length/sternum length 0.22 (Fig. 73G–H); other sigilla small and lateral, medial sigilla semi-elongate, anterior sigilla round (Fig. 73G–H).
LEG I (Fig. 73J–K). Leg I orange-brown, femur length 7.18, patella length 4.70, tibia length 4.86, metatarsus length 4.44, tarsus length 2.56, total length 23.74, leg I length/carapace length 2.50; scopulae on distal metatarsus and tarsus; spine count Fe D 1, Fe PL 2, Pa PL 3, Ti PL 2, Ti RL 4, Me PL 2, Me RL 3, Ta 0; tibia length/width [TIL/TID] 2.97.
GENITALIA (Fig. 73D, L). Epigastric furrow extending slightly, posterior edge with rounded shape (Fig. 73D); spermathecae with two vesicles each (Fig. 73L); lateral vesicle undulating, with several distinct bends, length 0.78, lateral vesicle length/genitalia width 0.38, length/width at base 2.41, crown slightly wider than stem (Fig. 73L); medial vesicle short, undulating, and projecting postero-ventrally, medial vesicle length/genitalia width 0.29, length/width 6.72, medial vesicle length/lateral vesicle length 0.76 (Fig. 73L).
Distribution and natural history
Aname boreovillosa sp. nov. occurs on the Blackdown Tableland in central-eastern Queensland, in the Brigalow Belt South bioregion, located between Emerald and Rockhampton (Fig. 11). It constructs an open, silk-lined burrow with silk spilling out from the entrance, sometimes with a built-up mound of soil around the entrance. The burrow has a short, hidden ‘wishbone’ entrance, which, when excavated, is revealed to terminate in a distinctly thick, white sheath of silk (Fig. 11).
description: Published as part of Wilson, Jeremy D., Harvey, Mark S., Simmons, Leigh W. & Rix, Michael G., 2025, An integrative systematic revision of the wishbone spiders (Araneae: Anamidae: Aname L. Koch, 1873) of subtropical and tropical eastern Australia, with the description of 55 new species, pp. 1-298 in European Journal of Taxonomy 985 on pages 115-116, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.985.2845, http://zenodo.org/record/15169471