Neotype designation for Sphingius thecatus Thorell, 1890, synonymies, new records and descriptions of six new species from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Liocranidae)
Author
Dankittipakul, Pakawin
Author
Tavano, Maria
Author
Singtripop, Tippawan
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Zootaxa
2011
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.201922
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1175-5326
201922
Sphingius caniceps
Simon, 1906
Figure 38–39
Sphingius caniceps
Simon: Simon, 1906
: 301; description of female.
Gravely, 1931
: 271
, figs 19E–F; description of male. Majumder & Tikader, 1991: 150, figs 315–319.
Type
material.
Syntypes
:
♀,
INDIA
:
Genji
: no date, no collector (
MNHN
, examined). Original label (in Simon’s handwritten): 17599
Sphing.
caniceps
E. S, Genji. (Mdr)
.
Gengi
: ♀ (juvenile), no date, no collector (
MNHN
, examined). Original label (in Simon’s handwritten):
Sphingius caniceps
E. Simon, Gengi.
Notes: The abbreviation Mdr stands for Maindron, confirming that these specimens were collected by Monsieur Maurice Maindron during his expedition to southern
India
in 1901, whose collection had been studied by
Simon (1906)
.
Remarks.
Sphingius caniceps
belongs to a group of species sharing distinctive genitalic similarities in which the elliptic genital orifices are enlarged, situated in the middle of a shallow epigynal atrium.