Plator kashmirensis Tikader & Gajbe 1973
- 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 kashmirensis Tikader & Gajbe, 1973
Figs 5–9
Plator kashmirensis Tikader & Gajbe, 1973: 829, figs 1–4 (Description and illustration of female).
Type material. Holotype female from INDIA: Jammu and Kashmir: Poonch / Punch (33°46’01.15’’N, 74°05’32.89’’E), 1007 m alt.; B.D. Sharma leg.; 1 April 1973; repository NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (no register number specified), examined.
Type material status. The ZSI collection has one glass tube for this species, which is labeled as ‘holotype’ (no register number) contains one female specimen in fairly good condition, with broken legs. The same tube has a small glass vial contains the dissected genitalia.
Diagnosis. Females of P. kashmirensis seem closely related to the females of Plator hanyikani Lin & Li, 2020 in the shape of epigynum, but can be separated from the latter by convex anterior part of copulatory ducts (P. hanyikani with concave anterior part of copulatory ducts) (compare Fig. 8 with Lin & Li 2020: fig. 3B).
Supplementary description. Female (holotype, Figs 5–6). Colour in alcohol: overall greyish-black (probably due to long term preservation). Body length 5.74. Carapace length 2.49, width 3.74. Opisthosoma length 3.25, width 3.70. Eye diameters: ALE 0.12. AME 0.15. PLE 0.14. PME 0.05. Eye interdistances: ALE–AME 0.16. ALE–PLE 0.25. AME–AME 0.10. AME–PME 0.15. PME–PLE 0.36. PME–PME 0.30. Measurements of legs: I 8.46 [2.72, 1.20, 1.59, 1.88, 1.07], II 12.09 [3.82, 1.43, 2.77, 2.81, 1.26], III 11.97 [3.94, 1.25, 2.71, 2.82, 1.25], IV 10.09 [3.39, 0.98, 2.08, 2.51, 1.13]. Leg formula: 2341. Genitalia as in Figs 7–8.
Male. Unknown.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 1973-04-01
- Family
- Trochanteriidae
- Genus
- Plator
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Araneae
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Tikader & Gajbe
- Species
- kashmirensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1973-04-01
- Taxonomic concept label
- Plator kashmirensis Tikader, 1973 sec. Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2020
References
- Tikader, B. K. & Gajbe, U. A. (1973) A new species of spider of genus Plator Simon (family-Platoridae) from India. Current Science, 42, 829.
- Lin, Y. J. & Li, S. Q. (2020) Taxonomic studies on six species of the genus Plator (Araneae: Trochanteriidae) from China. Zoological Systematics, 45, 24 - 39. https: // doi. org / 10.11865 / zs. 202003