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Plator indicus Simon 1897

  • 1. Division of Arachnology, Department of Zoology, Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Cochin, Kerala 682 013, India.
  • 2. Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700 053, India. caleb 87 woodgate @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9471 - 9467
  • 3. Division of Arachnology, Department of Zoology, Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Cochin, Kerala 682 013, India. & drpothalil @ rediffmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4936 - 4310

Description

Plator indicus Simon, 1897

Plator indicus Simon, 1897: 256 (Description of male).— Pocock, 1900: 272, fig. 89 (Description and illustration of male and female).

Plator ixodinus Pocock, 1899: 753 (Description of female). Synonymised by Pocock (1900).

Type materials. P. indicus. Type male from INDIA: Maharashtra: Pune (=Poona)(18°31’13.55’’N, 73°51’24.28’’E), 565 m alt.; E. Simon leg.; date unknown; repository unknown (probably MNHN, Paris), not examined. P. ixodinus. Type female from INDIA: Uttarakhand: Konain (2377 m (7800 ft) alt.) and Mundali (2438 m (8000 ft) alt.); F. Gleadow leg.; date unknown; repository unknown (probably NHM, London), not examined.

Note. According to Platnick (1976), the synonymy of P. ixodinus with P. indicus was wrongly judged by Pocock (1900) and the former species might be valid. Since we could not examine the types of both species, we are unable to confirm this and thus could not suggest any taxonomical changes.

Notes

Published as part of Sankaran, Pradeep M., Caleb, John T. D. & Sebastian, Pothalil A., 2020, The species of the genus Plator Simon, 1880 in India (Araneae: Trochanteriidae), pp. 133-141 in Zootaxa 4852 (1) on page 134, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/4408424

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MNHN , NHM
Scientific name authorship
Simon
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Trochanteriidae
Genus
Plator
Species
indicus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Plator indicus Simon, 1897 sec. Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2020

References

  • Simon, E. (1897) Materiaux pour servir a la faune arachnologique de l'Asie meridionale. V. Arachnides recueillis a Dehra-Dun (N. W. Prov.) et dans le Dekkan par M. A. Smythies. Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France, 10, 252 - 262. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 75145
  • Pocock, R. I. (1900) The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Arachnida. Taylor & Francis, London, 279 pp.
  • Pocock, R. I. (1899) Diagnoses of some new Indian Arachnida. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 12, 744 - 753.
  • Platnick, N. I. (1976) Notes on East Asian Plator (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea). Acta Arachnologica, 27, 1 - 7. https: // doi. org / 10.2476 / asjaa. 27.1