Zonstein, Sergei L.
2018-04-17
<p>The poorly known Central Asian trap-door spider <em>Ummidia gandjinoi</em> was de­scribed by Andreeva (1968) from a single male as a representative of <em>Pachy­lo­merus</em> Ausserer, 1871 (preoccupied in Coleoptera). Brignoli (1983) transferred this species to <em>Ummidia</em> Thorell, 1875, and Zonstein (2008) described the conspe­cific females. Although the male holotype had been described fairly adequately to dis­tinguish <em>U. gandjinoi</em> from its closest congeners, its depository for a long time was considered unknown, and the specimen was assumed to be lost. However, the holotype has been quite unexpectedly detected by Dr W. Wawer, the cu­ra­tor of the spider collection deposited at the Museum and Institute of Zoo­lo­gy, War­saw, Poland (MIZW), who sorted and prepared the loan requested for a re­vi­sion of the cyrtaucheniid <em>Anemesia</em> Pocock, 1895. It was found among the vials with the paratypes of <em>Brachythele karatauvi</em> Andreeva, 1968, and with some other re­presentatives of <em>Anemesia</em>. The redescription of the borrowed and exa­mined ho­lotype of <em>U. gandjinoi</em> is provided below.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1219368
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Israel Journal of Entomology, 48(1), 17–20, (2018-04-17)
biodiversity
Araneae
Mygalomorphae
Ctenizidae
trap-door spider
Central Asia
Tadjikistan
Afghanistan
arañas
Redescription of the lost and found male holotype of Ummidia gandjinoi (Andreeva, 1968) (Araneae: Ctenizidae)
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