Evarcha flavocincta
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Anatomy, Saveetha Medical College & Hospital, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai 602503, Tamil Nadu, India. & Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, West Bengal, India. caleb 87 woodgate @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9471 - 9467
Description
Evarcha flavocincta (C. L. Koch, 1846)
Figs 1–6, 25
Maevia flavocincta C. L. Koch, 1846: 74, fig. 1330 (D ♀).
Evarcha flavocincta Żabka, 1985: 224, figs 187–196 (♁ ♀); Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010: 165, figs 71–72 (♀); Roy et al., 2014: 380, figs 1–6 (♀); Dhali, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017: 29, figs 38–42, pl. 17 (♀); Prasad, Kumar & Tyagi, 2022: 1021, figs A–D (♀).
Plexippus optabilis Fox, 1937: 16, fig, 7 (D ♀); holotype ♀ in the United States National Natural History Museum, Washington, D.C., examined drawings of the holotype by J. Prószyński (1987); syn. nov.
Marpissa mizoramensis B.K. Biswas & K. Biswas, 2007: 458, figs 1–3 (D ♀); holotype ♀ in NZC-ZSI, Kolkata, examined; syn. nov.
For a complete list of taxonomic references refer the WSC (2022).
Type material. Marpissa mizoramensis Biswas & Biswas, 2007: Holotype ♀ (NZC-ZSI 5480 /18) from INDIA, Mizoram, Lunglei (22.8629°N, 92.7750°E), 962 m a.s.l., 25.03.1994, leg. Bijan Biswas.
Justification of synonymy. Marpissa mizoramensis Biswas & Biswas, 2007 was described from Lunglei, Mizoram based on a female holotype (Biswas & Biswas 2007). Detailed examination of the holotype revealed that the general body colour pattern and the sclerotized epigyne with large, comma shaped grooves separated by a broad median septum; posterior margin with a pair of lateral pockets; complex and coiled internal duct system with membraneous ducts running initially from the copulatory openings and gradually becoming sclerotized; anteriorly placed spermathecae are identical with that of Evarcha flavocincta (cf. Figs 1–4 with figs 187–192 in Żabka (1985)). The name Marpissa mizoramensis is therefore regarded as a junior synonym of E. flavocincta.
Evarcha optabilis (Fox, 1937) was described based on a female holotype collected from Suifu, Szechwan Province (now Sichuan Province), China (Fox 1937). The illustrations of the genitalia of the holotype (Fox 1937; Prószyński 1987) depict the epigyne with comma shaped grooves separated by a broad median septum; posterior margin with a pair of lateral pockets; internal duct system apparently coiling and positioned anteriorly are identical with that of Evarcha flavocincta (cf. fig. 7 in Fox (1937) and illustration in Prószyński (1987: 26) with figs 188 & 191 in Żcabka (1985) and Fig. 2 herein). It is thus safe to consider E. optabilis as a junior synonym of E. flavocincta.
Distribution. India, China to Indonesia (WSC 2022). India: Mizoram (Biswas & Biswas 2004: sub Marpissa mizoramensis), Odisha (Prasad et al. 2022), West Bengal (Roy et al. 2014; Dhali, Saha & Raychaudhuri 2017; Tyagi et al. 2019) (Fig. 25).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NZC-ZSI
- Material sample ID
- NZC-ZSI 5480
- Event date
- 1994-03-25
- Verbatim event date
- 1994-03-25
- Scientific name authorship
- C. L. Koch
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Salticidae
- Genus
- Evarcha
- Species
- flavocincta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Evarcha flavocincta (Koch, 1846) sec. Caleb, 2023
References
- Koch, C. L. (1846) Die Arachniden. Dreizehnter Band & Vierzehnter Band. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nurnberg, 234 pp. & 88 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 43744
- Zabka, M. (1985) Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa, 39, 197 - 485.
- Proszynski, J. & Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (2010) Description of some Salticidae (Araneae) from the Malay Archipelago. I. Salticidae of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with comments on related species. Arthropoda Selecta, 19 (3), 153 - 188. https: // doi. org / 10.15298 / arthsel. 19.3.05
- Roy, T. K., Dhali, D. C., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2014) A newly recorded genus Evarcha Simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Munis Entomology and Zoology, 9 (1), 379 - 383.
- Dhali, D. C., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2017) Litter and ground dwelling spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars, West Bengal. World Scientific News, 63, 1 - 242.
- Prasad, P., Kumar, V. & Tyagi, K. (2022) Resolving an ambiguity on the geographical distribution of Evarcha flavocincta (C. L. Koch, 1846) from India. Munis Entomology and Zoology, 17 (2), 1020 - 1026.
- Fox, I. (1937) Notes on Chinese spiders of the families Salticidae and Thomisidae. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 27, 12 - 23.
- Proszynski, J. (1987). Atlas rysunkow diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyzszej Szkoly RolniczoPedagogicznej, Siedlcach, 172 pp.
- Biswas, B. K. & Biswas, K. (2007) Araneae: Spiders. In: Fauna of Mizoram. State Fauna Series. 14. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 455 - 475.
- WSC (2022) World Spider Catalog. Version 23. 5. Natural History Museum Bern, Bern. Available from: http: // wsc. nmbe. ch (accessed 10 November 2022) https: // doi. org / 10.24436 / 2
- Biswas, B. K. & Biswas, K. (2004) Araneae: Spiders. In: Fauna of Manipur. State Fauna Series. 10 (2). Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 25 - 46.
- Tyagi, K., Kumar, V., Kundu, S., Pakrashi, A., Prasad, P., Caleb, J. T. D. & Chandra, K. (2019) Identification of Indian spiders through DNA barcoding: cryptic species and species complex. Scientific Reports, 9 (14033), 1 - 13 & Supplement. https: // doi. org / 10.1038 / s 41598 - 019 - 50510 - 8