Cleaning old cabinets: revealing the taxonomy of Sri Lankan wolf spiders (Araneae, Udubidae and Zoropsidae) Author Polotow, Daniele Author Griswold, Charles text Zootaxa 2017 2017-12-04 4362 1 51 74 journal article 31254 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.1.3 e7983c67-0ce5-4b7f-9373-8782b86e059b 1175-5326 1076176 61A41EC1-2557-429D-B47C-595D12F2D8E3 Udubidae Polotow & Griswold 2015 UdubIdAE POlOtOw & GrIswOld, 2015 : 151 TypE gEnus Uduba SImOn, 1880 : 343 ( TypE spEcIEs by mOnOtypy: Olios madagascariensis VInsOn, 1863 ) Diagnosis. Udubidae are supported by several homoplastic synapomorphies (Polotow et al. 2015: fig. 6), which can be used to distinguish them from other Oval Calamistrum clade families: absence of a serrula on the movable chela of the chelicerae, tibia of male palp with ventral apophysis, oval cross section of the embolus, tarsal organ with a key-hole shaped opening ( Fig. 1E ), tarsal trichobothria of equal length, male leg tibiae with crack ( Fig. 3E ), uniquely textured spermathecae and elongated posterior lateral spinnerets. Composition. Campostichomma Karsch, 1892 ; Raecius Simon, 1892 ; Uduba Simon, 1880 and Zorodictyna Strand, 1907 . Distribution. Tropical and sub-tropical Africa, Madagascar , and Sri Lanka . Note. Campostichomma was not included as a terminal in the Polotow et al. (2015) analysis, but the genus presents the diagnostic morphological characters of Udubidae . Lehtinen (1967: 318) placed Campostichomma in his Machadoniinae (Miturgidae) along with Devendra . The close relationship of Campostichomma and Uduba was first proposed by Griswold (1993) , recovered by Raven & Stumkat (2005) and was discussed by Griswold (2000) as a potential case of vicariance between Madagascar and Sri Lanka.