Meedo ovtsharenkoi PLATNICK 2002, new species

Meedo ovtsharenkoi, new species Figures 22, 23; Map 3

TYPE: Female holotype from Sinker Reef Road, Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, Albany, 34 ° 58 ̍ S, 118 ° 09 ̍ E, Western Australia (Nov. 14, 1998; V. Ovtsharenko), deposited in WAM.

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of the collector.

DIAGNOSIS: Females have a distinctive epigynum, with an anteromedian hood and short atrium (fig. 22) and laterally bent spermathecal extensions (fig. 23).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE: Total length 4.2. Carapace light brown with dark gray reticulations; abdominal dorsum dark gray with transverse white hairlines, venter white; legs light brown proximally, darker distally. Chelicerae vertical, endites relatively short. All tarsi entire. Epigynum long, with small anteromedian hood (fig. 22); anterior spermathecal extensions bent laterally (fig. 23).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Southwestern Australia (map 3).