Macrothele indicola Tripathi & Kadam & Sherwood & Sudhikumar 2025, comb. nov.
Authors/Creators
- 1. Centre for Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Department of Zoology, Christ College, Irinjalakuda, Thrissur, Kerala 680 125, India.
- 2. Sacred Heart College, Pandit Karuppan Rd, Thevara, Ernakulam, Kerala 682 013, India.
- 3. Arachnology Research Association, 124 City Road, London, EC 1 V 2 NX, United Kingdom. & Fundación Ariguanabo, 4111, Calle 58; e / ave. 41 y ave. 43, San Antonio de los Baños, Provincia Artemisa c. p. 18100, Cuba.
Description
Macrothele indicola (Tikader, 1969) comb. nov.
Fig. 13
Ischnothele indicola Tikader, 1969: 160, figs 25–29 (♂ ♀).
Type material examined
Holotype
INDIA • ♂; Meghalaya; Shillong (previously located in the state of Assam, as mentioned in original description, now the capital of the state of Meghalaya), Kench’s trace; 3 Aug. 1966; S. Biswas leg.; NZC-ZSI 3833/18.
Paratype
INDIA • 1 ♀, same data as for holotype; NZC-ZSI 3835/18.
Allotype
INDIA • 1 ♂, same data as for holotype; NZC-ZSI 3835/18.
Rationale for transferral
Tikader (1969) described this species based on specimens of both sexes, collected from Shillong, Meghalaya. Detailed examination of the type images of Ischnothele indicola shows that it has diagnostic features of Macrothele Ausserer, 1871, including the male palpal bulb with a long and slender embolus, and the female spermathecae with long receptacles and globular apical lobes, as well as the labium of both sexes bearing several cuspules (Fig. 13D, H) (see also Shimojana & Haupt 1998; Xu & Yin 2001; Xu et al. 2002). Therefore, based on the above characters, we transfer Ischnothele indicola to the genus Macrothele, creating the new combination Macrothele indicola comb. nov.
Remarks
The specimen is in bad condition and fragile, with broken legs and palp, the abdomen shows noticeable shrinking from probable historic desiccation.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Material sample ID
- NZC-ZSI 3833/18 , NZC-ZSI 3835/18
- Event date
- 1966-08-03
- Verbatim event date
- 1966-08-03
- Scientific name authorship
- Tripathi & Kadam & Sherwood & Sudhikumar
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Macrothelidae
- Genus
- Macrothele
- Species
- indicola
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Type status
- allotype , holotype , paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Macrothele indicola (Tikader, 1969) sec. Tripathi, Kadam, Sherwood & Sudhikumar, 2025
References
- Tikader B. K. 1969. Studies on spider fauna of Khasi and Jaintia hills, Assam, India. Part III. Journal of the Assam Science Society 11: 154-163.
- Shimojana M. & Haupt J. 1998. Taxonomy and natural history of the funnel-web spider genus Macrothele (Araneae: Hexathelidae: Macrothelinae) in the Ryukyu Islands (Japan) and Taiwan. Species Diversity 3: 1-15. https://doi.org/10.12782/specdiv.3.1
- Xu X. & Yin C. M. 2001. A new species of the genus Macrothele from China (Araneae: Hexathelidae). Journal of Natural Science of Hunan Normal University 24 (3): 65-66, 72.
- Xu X., Yin C. M. & Griswold C. E. 2002. A new species of the spider genus Macrothele from the Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan, China (Araneae: Hexathelidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 78 (2): 116-119.