Redescription of Draposa subhadrae (Patel & Reddy, 1993) (Araneae: Lycosidae, Pardosinae)
Author
Marusik, Yuri M.
Author
Omelko, Mikhail M.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4107
1
89
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4107.1.6
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Draposa
Kronestedt, 2010
is a small genus of Pardosinae spiders. Currently it encompasses 10 species (World Spider Catalog
2016
) distributed from
Pakistan
to Southeast
China
. Most species of the genus, except for
D
.
porpaensis
(
Gajbe, 2004
)
, are known from both sexes and were described or redescribed by
Kronestedt (2010)
. Two other species,
D. amkhasensis
(
Tikader & Malhotra, 1976
)
and
D. burasantiensis
(
Tikader & Malhotra, 1976
)
, both recently transferred to
Draposa
(
Dhali
et al.
2012
)
, are doubtful because their copulatory organs are not properly illustrated and differ from the
type
species and other species of the genus. The male of
Draposa subhadrae
(
Patel & Reddy, 1993
)
remains known by very poor original drawings because
Kronestedt (2010)
was not able to study
types
. While studying material from
Sri Lanka
collected by us, we found one sample with two females belonging to
D. subhadrae
and two males of
Draposa
having the same colour pattern and size. We concluded that these specimens are conspecific. The goal of this paper is to provide an illustrated redescription of this species.