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Spariolenus Simon 1880
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Plant and Animal Biology, Faculty of Biological Science and Technology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran. m. moradmand @ sci. ui. ac. ir; moradmand. arachnids @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8596 - 8448 Department of Biology, Faculty of Education, University of Ghazni, Ghazni, Afghanistan. & Arachnology, Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. & Department of Biogeography, Trier University, Trier, Germany.
- 2. Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States.
Description
Spariolenus Simon, 1880
Type species: Spariolenus tigris Simon, 1880, from eastern India, Calcutta. For redescription and illustration see Jäger (2001, 2006).
Generic diagnosis. Distinguished from other Heteropodinae by a combination of somatic and genital characters: most importantly, the number of spines on ventral tibia of legs: I–II 10, III 8 and IV 6 (vs. commonly I–IV 6 in others); male palp with short v- and dRTA; female copulatory organ with two spirally coiled CO which constructing two large rims ventrally. For detailed generic diagnosis see Moradmand and Jäger (2011).
Notes
Published as part of Moradmand, Majid, Wesal, Mohammad Wasil & Kulkarni, Siddharth, 2023, Taxonomic revision of the troglophile Spariolenus spiders (Araneae: Sparassidae) in South and West Asia, pp. 77-95 in Zootaxa 5380 (1) on page 78, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5380.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/10212761
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Simon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Sparassidae
- Genus
- Spariolenus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Spariolenus Simon, 1880 sec. Moradmand, Wesal & Kulkarni, 2023
References
- Simon, E. (1880) Revision de la famille des Sparassidae (Arachnides). Actes de la Societe linneenne de Bordeaux, 34, 223 - 351.
- Jager, P. (2001) Diversitat der Riesenkrabbenspinnen im Himalaya. Uber eine Radiation zweier Gattungen in den Schneetropen (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 232, 1 - 136.
- Jager, P. (2006) A new Spariolenus species from caves in Oman - the first representative of the Heteropodinae in the Arabian Peninsula (Araneae: Sparassidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 13, 309 - 313.
- Moradmand, M. & Jager, P. (2011) A review on the huntsman spider genus Spariolenus Simon, 1880 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae) in Iran with description of four new species. Zootaxa, 2910, 46 - 62. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2910.1.2