Sphingius nainitalensis Sankaran & Caleb 2021, comb. nov.
Creators
- 1. Division of Arachnology, Department of Zoology, Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Cochin, Kerala 682 013, India. pradeepmspala @ rediffmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0884 - 5625
- 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
Description
Figs 84–89
Sosticus nainitalensis Gajbe, 1979: 70, fig. 2A–E (♀). Tikader, 1982: 432, figs 325–329 (♀).
Type material. Holotype ♀ from INDIA: Uttarakhand: Nainital (formerly in Uttar Pradesh): Kaladhungi forest (not Koladurgi) (28°56’11’’N, 79°14’38’’E), 263 m alt., Asket Singh leg., 22.XII.1970, NZC-ZSI, Kolkata (4318/18), examined.
Justification of the transfer. The original genitalic illustrations of this species (Gajbe 1979: fig. 2C–D) clearly suggest that it is misplaced in Sosticus. Furthermore, the conical anterior lateral spinnerets of this species (Fig. 86) clearly indicated that it is misplaced in Gnaphosidae. Examination of the type of this species revealed that it has diagnostic features of Sphingius as mentioned in the case of S. poonaensis (compare Figs 87–88 with Zhang & Fu 2010: figs 9–10 and Dankittipakul et al. 2011: figs 25–26, 39). Based on these observations, we propose to transfer S. nainitalensis to Sphingius.
Remarks. The ZSI collection has one glass tube for this species labeled as ‘holotype’ (4318/18) containing a female specimen in fairly good condition, with broken legs. The same tube has a micro-vial containing the dissected epigyne.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 1970-12-22
- Family
- Liocranidae
- Genus
- Sphingius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Araneae
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Sankaran & Caleb
- Species
- nainitalensis
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1970-12-22
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sphingius nainitalensis (Gajbe, 1979) sec. Sankaran & Caleb, 2021
References
- Gajbe, U. A. (1979) Studies on some spiders of the genus Sosticus from India (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the Zoological Survey of India, 2, 69 - 74.
- Tikader, B. K. (1982). Part 2. Family Gnaphosidae. In: The fauna of India. Spiders: Araneae. Vol. II. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 295 - 536.
- Zhang, F. & Fu, J. Y. (2010) A new species of the genus Sphingius (Araneae, Liocranidae) from China, and first description of the female: Sphingius hainan Zhang, Fu & Zhu, 2009. ZooKeys, 49, 23 - 31. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 49.391
- Dankittipakul, P., Tavano, M. L. & Singtripop, T. (2011) Neotype designation for Sphingius thecatus Thorell, 1890, synonymies, new records and descriptions of six new species from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Liocranidae). Zootaxa, 3066 (1), 1 - 20. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3066.1.1