First description of the male of the little-known ant mimicking spider genus Aetius O. Pickard-Cambridge (Araneae: Corinnidae)
Author
Dankittipakul, Pakawin
Endocrinology Research Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand & Manukau Institute of Technology, Private Bag 94006, Manukau 2241, Auckland, New Zealand.
Author
Singtripop, Tippawan
Endocrinology Research Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
tippawan.si@cmu.ac.th
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Revue suisse de Zoologie
2013
2013-12-31
120
4
575
583
journal article
230908
10.5281/zenodo.7560559
0f334fc2-8684-4558-9d10-664a091762ab
0035-418X
7560559
Aetius decollatus
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
Fig. 5
Aetius decollatus
O.
Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
: 1007
, pl. 52 fig. 1.
MATERIAL EXAMINED:
One penultimate
male
,
India
, original label text in square brackets: [
Voy. Carl et Escher
, Inde méridionale,
Mudumalai
, 7-9.II], (
MHNG
, examined).
Note: 'Voy. Carl et Escher' was a zoological expedition by J. Carl and K. Escher to southern
India
in the winter of 1926-1927. Material was collected at Anaimalis, Nilgiris, and Palnis. The hills they visited in these areas are within about
200 miles
south and a little west of Bangalore. The Mudumalai National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary lies on the northwestern side of the Nilgiri Hills, in Nilgiri District.
REMARKS: The female
holotype
was collected from
Sri Lanka
. The female has a slender opisthosoma with a constriction. The legs are banded. The carapace is dark, with a yellow thoracic region.
This
pattern conforms well to the juvenile male treated here.